200px, Insurgent otaman Vasyl Chuchupak Vasyl Stepanovych Chuchupak ( uk, Василь Степанович Чучупак) (11 March 1895 – 12 April 1920) was the leader of the Kholodny Yar Ukrainian

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movement during the

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."Russian-Ukrainian war never stopped"

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(12 December 2014)“Kholodny Yar is alive…”

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(22 February 2011)

Biography

Born in 1895 in the village Melnyky in the

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region, Chuchupak served in the

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with his brother Petro and was a village teacher.People freedom

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(21 August 2016) Chuchupak's family was highly regarded within the Melnyky village. They were wealthy peasants and provided a good education for their offsprings. In particular, Vasyl's brothers Oleksa Chuchupak and Semen Chuchupak were village teachers, and Petro Chuchupak studied in Kyiv Academy of Music, furthermore, some of his relatives were priests, namely, Demian and Avtonom Chuchupaks. Chuchupak was the leader (

Otaman Ataman (variants: ''otaman'', ''wataman'', ''vataman''; Russian: атаман, uk, отаман) was a title of Cossack and haidamak leaders of various kinds. In the Russian Empire, the term was the official title of the supreme military commande ...

) of the Kholodnyi Yar Ukrainian

movement during the

. In current

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this movement formed the

Kholodny Yar Republic Kholodny Yar Republic, Cold Ravine Republic or Kholodnoyarsk Republic (1919–1922) was a self-proclaimed state formation, partisan movement, which ran on part of the lands of the former Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR — or Ukrainian Nationa ...

that lasted from 1919 to 1922 were they fought for Ukrainian independence and against the

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. The republic included 25 villages (with Melnyky serving as its "capital") and could raise an army of 16 thousand. It was the last territory held by supporters of an independent Ukrainian state before the incorporating of Ukraine into the Soviet Union as the

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. The teacher's reputation and his organizational skills with transferable war experience skills made a creation of a strong insurgent organization as a segment of Ukrainian National Republic possible" The best evaluation to Vasyl Chuchupak's role of that period was given by White guards in the Autumn 1919: "Chuchupak is independence minded, he has a support amongst a village's intelligentsia and a peasants' segment. He demonstrates an ability to be rigorous in connection with stealing within the army and tries to create a disciplined army". Chuchupak shot and killed himself on 12 April 1920 in a fight with a squadron of red cossacks.At the grave chieftain Chuchupaky came two thousand people

(16 April 2009) In the 21st century the Kholodny Republic flag was used during the

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demonstrations and by the

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. In January 2018 the 93rd Mechanized Brigade of the

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received the honorary name "Kholodny Yar" as reference to the Kholodny Yar partisan movement.

References

External links

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