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Cross Of Merit (Ukrainian Insurgent Army)
The Cross of Merit ( uk, Хрест Заслуги) was an award of Ukrainian Insurgent Army. It awarded for distinguished services to the state and people of the Ukrainian army. The Order was instituted on January 27, 1944 by the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council leaders, Roman Shukhevych and Dmytro Hrytsai Dmytro Hrytsai ( a.k.a. "''Perebyinis''"; Ukrainian: Дмитрó Грицáй-Переб́ийніс; Dorozhiv, Galicia, 1 April 1907 – 22 December 1945, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a leader in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and .... The Order is awarded in five (golden, silver and bronze) grades and had a red ribbon with a black stripe on each edge. Description Knights * Nil Khasevych References *Сергій Музичук, Ігор Марчук Українська Повстанча Армія. — Рівне: Бібліотека журналу «Однострій», 2006. — С. 35–46. — 56 с. — (Українські військо ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Insurgent Army
The Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( uk, Українська повстанська армія, УПА, translit=Ukrayins'ka povstans'ka armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan formation. During World War II, it was engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Soviet Union, the Polish Underground State, Communist Poland, and Nazi Germany. It was established by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. The insurgent army arose out of separate militant formations of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists—Bandera faction (the OUN-B), other militant national-patriotic formations, some former defectors of the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, mobilization of local populations and others.Vedeneyev, D. Military Field Gendarmerie – special body of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army'. "Voyenna Istoriya" magazine. 2002. The political leadership of the army belonged to the OUN-B. It was the primary perpetrator of the ethnic cleansing of Poles in Volhy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Of Combat Merit
The Cross of Combat Merit ( uk, Хрест Заслуги) was the highest award of Ukrainian Insurgent Army. It awarded for distinguished services to the state and people of the Ukrainian army. The Order was instituted on January 27, 1944 by the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council leaders, Roman Shukhevych and Dmytro Hrytsai Dmytro Hrytsai ( a.k.a. "''Perebyinis''"; Ukrainian: Дмитрó Грицáй-Переб́ийніс; Dorozhiv, Galicia, 1 April 1907 – 22 December 1945, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a leader in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and .... The Order is awarded in five (golden, silver and bronze) grades and had a red ribbon with a black stripe. Description References *Сергій Музичук, Ігор Марчук Українська Повстанча Армія. — Рівне: Бібліотека журналу «Однострій», 2006. — С. 35–46. — 56 с. — (Українські військові формування ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Of Merit Ribbon Bar
A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other. The lines usually run vertically and horizontally. A cross of oblique lines, in the shape of the Latin letter X, is termed a saltire in heraldic terminology. The cross has been widely recognized as a symbol of Christianity from an early period.''Christianity: an introduction'' by Alister E. McGrath 2006 pages 321-323 However, the use of the cross as a religious symbol predates Christianity; in the ancient times it was a pagan religious symbol throughout Europe and western Asia. The effigy of a man hanging on a cross was set up in the fields to protect the crops. It often appeared in conjunction with the female-genital circle or oval, to signify the sacred marriage, as in Egyptian amu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council
Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (''UHVR'') was an umbrella organization that combined various Ukrainian nationalists and anti-Soviet partisans until the early 1950s. The council was formed in July 1944. ''UHVR'' united Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (''OUN'') and Ukrainian Insurgent Army (''UPA''). Not all members of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council were simultaneously (or previously) members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( uk, Організація українських націоналістів, Orhanizatsiya ukrayins'kykh natsionalistiv, abbreviated OUN) was a Ukrainian ultranationalist political organization estab .... After the end of the Second World War, the council co-ordinated resistance efforts in Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Ukraine. It also organised the boycott of the Soviet-sponsored elections in 1946. After the killing of Roman Shukhevych in 1950 by Soviet NKVD force ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Shukhevych
Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych ( uk, Рома́н-Тарас Йо́сипович Шухе́вич, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950), was a Ukrainian nationalist, one of the commanders of Nachtigall Battalion, a of the German Schutzmannschaft 201 auxiliary police battalion, a military leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), and one of the perpetrators of the Galicia-Volhynia massacres of approximately 100,000 Poles. Life Shukhevych was born in the city of Lviv,Kentiy, A"Roman Shukhevych" ''Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine''. 2013 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (some sources claim his place of birth as Krakovets). Both Shukhevych's parents were involved with the Ukrainian national revival in the 19th century. The family lays claim to dozens of active community activists in politics, music, science, and art. Shukhevych received his early education outside of Lviv. He returned to Lviv to study at the Lviv Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmytro Hrytsai
Dmytro Hrytsai ( a.k.a. "''Perebyinis''"; Ukrainian: Дмитрó Грицáй-Переб́ийніс; Dorozhiv, Galicia, 1 April 1907 – 22 December 1945, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a leader in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and a general in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Life Born in Galicia, Hrytsai graduated from '' gymnasium'' in Drohobych (then part of eastern Poland) and became a member of the Ukrainian Military Organization (''UVO''). In 1928 he matriculated in the Lviv University Department of Physics and Mathematics. He did not graduate, being called to military service in the Polish Army. He completed officers' school with distinction. In this period of his life he joined the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). From 1933 he directed the OUN Executive's military department. In 1934 he was arrested by the Polish police and was held for over two years at Bereza Kartuska Prison. After his release, he resumed his studies at Lwów University. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nil Khasevych
Nil Antonovych Khasevych ( uk, Ніл Антонович Хасе́вич, , in village, Kostopil Raion, Rivne Oblast — , in village, Rivne Raion, Rivne Oblast) was a Ukrainian painter, Graphics, graphic artist, active public and political figure, member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN and the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council, UHVR. He was also a knight of the Cross of Merit (Ukrainian Insurgent Army), Silver Cross of Merit and the . His pseudonyms are Bey-Zot, Levko, Rybalka, 333, Staryi, and Dzhmil. Biography Childhood and youth Nil Khasevych was born November 25 (Julian calendar, November 12 Old Style) 1905 in the village in Volhynia, now Kostopil Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine, in a family of Psalomnyk Anton Ivanovych Khasevych and his wife Theodotia Oleksiivna. The village, according to the old administrative divisions, was , Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire. His brothers Anatoly and Fedir also become priests. Nil also studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
