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Maria Biletska
Mariia Biletska, sometimes ''Maria Biletska'' (1864 – 30 December 1937) was a Ukrainian teacher. She ran a house in Lviv, where students could stay. She was a leader of the women's movement. Life Biletska was born in 1864 in Ternopil. In 1899, she and Hermina Shukhevych ran the Institute of St. Olga. The institute provided a place for girls to live while they attended education in Lviv. About half of these girls came from peasant families. In 1912 she attended a meeting organised by Konstantyna Malytska for the "Women's Committee" in Lviv to prepare for war. Others at the meeting were Olena Zalizniak (1886-1969), Olena Stepaniv and Olha Basarab. The money raised from the "National Combat Fund", they recommended, was used to fund the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (german: Ukrainische Sitschower Schützen; uk, Українські cічові стрільці (УСС), translit=Ukraïnski sichovi stril’tsi (USS)) was a Ukrainian unit within t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ternopil
Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopil serves as the administrative centre of Ternopil Oblast and has the status of city of oblast significance. Located on the banks of the Seret (river), Seret. Until 1944, it was known mostly as Tarnopol. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical regions of Galicia (Central Europe), Galicia and Podolia. It is served by Ternopil Airport. The population of Ternópil was estimated at . Administrative status The city is the administrative center of Ternopil Oblast (Oblasts of Ukraine, region), as well as of surrounding Ternopil Raion (Raions of Ukraine, district) within the oblast. It hosts the administration of Ternopil urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Demography According to Ukrainian Census (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lviv
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. It was named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia. Lviv emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia in the 14th century, superseding Halych, Chełm, Belz and Przemyśl. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great of Poland. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, for a short time, it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Between the wars, the city was the centre of the Lwów Voivodeship in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantyna Malytska
Konstantyna Ivanivna Malytska or Rastyk; Vira Lebedova; Chaika Dnistrova ( uk, Костянтина Іванівна Малицька; 30 May 1872 – 17 March 1947) was a Ukrainian educator, writer, and activist. Biography Malytska was born in Kropyvnyk in Kalush Raion in 1872. She studied to be a teacher and graduated in 1892. She taught elementary education in Halych, Luzhany, and Lviv at the Shevchenko Girls' School. In 1912, she organized a meeting for the "Women's Committee" in Lviv to prepare for the war that she saw as inevitable. Others at the meeting were Olena Stepaniv, Maria Biletska (1864-1937) and Olha Basarab. The money raised from the "National Combat Fund", they created, was used to fund the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. and Stepaniv would be its first female officer. In 1938, the Second Polish Republic declared the Ukrainian Women's Union illegal. As a result, another women's organization, the ''Druzhyna Kniahyni Olhy'' (Friends of Princess Ohla), was form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Zalizniak
Olena Julianivna Zalizniak ( Ochrymovych; March 21, 1886 – June 12, 1969) was an educator and civic leader in Ukraine and Canada. She led the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations from 1956 to 1969. Life Olena Julianivna Okhrymovych was born in Senechiv, Dolyna, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in 1886, one of nine children born to Reverend Julian Okhrymovych and Maria ( Ochrymovych) Kobliansky. In 1912, she attended a meeting, organized by Konstantyna Malytska. For the "Women's Committee" in Lviv to prepare for war. Others at the meeting were Olha Basarab, Maria Biletska and Olena Stepaniv Olena Ivanivna Stepaniv (; 7 December 1892 – 11 July 1963; also Olena Iwaniwna Stepaniw, Yelena Ivanovna Stepaniv, and Olena Stepaniw-Daschkewytsch) was an Austro-Hungarian and Ukrainian soldier, public figure and economist. She is popularly .... The money raised from the "National Combat Fund" they created was used to fund the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. She moved to Vienna as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olena Stepaniv
Olena Ivanivna Stepaniv (; 7 December 1892 – 11 July 1963; also Olena Iwaniwna Stepaniw, Yelena Ivanovna Stepaniv, and Olena Stepaniw-Daschkewytsch) was an Austro-Hungarian and Ukrainian soldier, public figure and economist. She is popularly known as the first female officer in the Ukrainian army. Life Stepaniv was born in Vyshnivchyk, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) in 1892. In 1912, she attended a meeting organised by Konstantyna Malytska for the "Women's Committee" in Lviv to prepare for war. Others at the meeting were Olena Zalizniak, Maria Biletska and Olha Basarab. They recommended that the money raised from the "National Combat Fund" be used to fund the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. During the First World War she was a student at Lviv University. While still a student she was given the command of a platoon. She claimed that she joined the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen by dressing as a man. Her disguise was spotted and it was debated as to whether she should be detained; she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olha Basarab
Olha Basarab ( uk, Ольга Михайлівна Басараб; 1 September 1889 – 12 February 1924) was a Ukrainian political activist and member of the Ukrainian Military Organization who conducted both charitable and humanitarian work that was recognized by the International Red Cross, as well as military or intelligence work on behalf of the Ukrainian underground. She was an executive of the Ukrainian Women's Union branch in Lviv Ukraine. She was arrested by the Polish police after being accused of working with the Ukrainian Military Organization and of spying for Germany (with whom the Ukrainian Military Organization had a working relationship). Materials indicating cooperation with Germany's intelligence were found at her home.''"Organizacja Ukraińskich Nacjonalistów 1929-1939"'' Roman Wysocki Different accounts of her death in prison exist range from suicide to murder. Afterwards she was seen as a martyr and source of inspiration within the Ukrainian community.Martha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (german: Ukrainische Sitschower Schützen; uk, Українські cічові стрільці (УСС), translit=Ukraïnski sichovi stril’tsi (USS)) was a Ukrainian unit within the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War. Scope The unit was formed in August 1914 on the initiative of the Supreme Ukrainian Council. It was composed of members of different Ukrainian paramilitary organizations in Galicia, led by Frank Schott, and participated in hostilities on the Russian front. After World War I, with Austria's disintegration, the unit became the regular military unit of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. During German and Austrian occupation of Ukraine in 1918 the unit was stationed in southern Ukraine. Former unit soldiers participated in the formation of Sich Riflemen, a military unit of the Ukrainian People's Republic. In 1919 the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen expanded into the Ukrainian Galician Army ( uk, Українська ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Women's Union
The Ukrainian Women's Union ( uk, Союз українок) (1920–1938) was the most influential women's organization operating among Ukrainian women outside of Soviet Ukraine. Because they represented Ukrainian nationals living in other sovereign states, the organization solidified their struggle for gender recognition with one for nationalist aims. Formed in Lviv in 1920, the organization did not focus on traditional feminist issues of equality and political agency until after they had built up a base membership and helped improve the social and economic lives of the peasantry which made up the majority of their membership. History The Ukrainian Women's Union (UWU) was founded in 1920 by Milena Rudnytska along with , Iryna Sichynska, and others, to organize women's journals, conferences, and cooperatives. It was said to have succeeded the Women's Hromada in Lviv. At the time, Ukrainians in the former province of Galicia, which had been part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1864 Births
Events January–March * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " Beautiful Dreamer" is published in March. * January 16 – Denmark rejects an Austrian-Prussian ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution, which says that Schleswig-Holstein is part of Denmark. * January 21 – New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga campaign begins. * February – John Wisden publishes '' The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864'' in England; it will go on to become the major annual cricket reference publication. * February 1 – Danish-Prussian War (Second Schleswig War): 57,000 Austrian and Prussian troops cross the Eider River into Denmark. * February 15 – Heineken brewery founded in Netherlands. * February 17 – American Civil War: The tiny Confederate hand-propelled submarine ''H. L. Hunl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Ternopil
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Ukrainian Women Educators
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