In the article the vital and scientific course of life of Taras Zynoviyovych Verbytsky - the well-known Ukrainian geophysicist, one of founders of the Carpathians Brunch of Subbotin name Institute of geophysics of NASU, founder and leader of Lviv school of theoretical and experimental studies of nonlinear effects at propagation of elastic waves in rocks, organizer and leader of regimes seismoprognostic observations on the Carpathians geodynamic polygon is presented.