Contribution of the Ukrainian National Council in Petrograd in the facility of helping refugees and evictees during the First World War

Journal Title: Схід - Year 2017, Vol 149, Issue 3

Abstract

The article analyses the contribution of Ukrainian National Council in Petrograd - plenipotentiary representative body of Ukrainian Central Rada in the capital of Russia, created after the February Revolution in 1917 under the heading of O. Lototskyi and P. Stebnytskyi - in the facility of helping refugees and evictees from Galicia, Volyn and Kholmshchyna during the First World War. Individual letters of evicts from Ukraine have been published (in particular the rector of the Lviv theological seminary, the priest, the doctor of theology OsipBotsian, the chairman of the Ukrainian Council in Tashkent (Republic of Uzbekistan) V. Rozvadovsky, the assistant professor of the university and the professional gymnasium in Stanislaviv I. S. Demianchuk, etc.), which came to the address of Ukrainian National Council. There were analyzed lists of Galician settlers, which had to live in Tashkent, on the Russian territory (in Rostov-on-Don, Buinsk (Symbirian province), in Voronizh, Kazanska, Enyseiska and other provinces). It was proved, that in the period of functioning of Ukrainian National Council (spring - summer 1917) the help to refugees and evictees from Galicia, Volyn and Kholmshchyna was focused in the frame, allocated by researchers (L. Zhvanko) second stage of the solution of the refugee problem - preparing to reevacuation, initiated in times of Ukrainian National Council. The practical contribution of Ukrainian National Council in Petrograd was in the collection of statistical information about evictees, submission to higher government institutions of appeals and petitions regarding the improvement of their living conditions and providing of material assistance, returning them to the territory of Ukraine, appealing to charitable organizations and patronage volunteers requesting assistance to war prisoners and evictees, involvement in law-making practice, directed to facilitating the fate of this social category.

Authors and Affiliations

Inna Demuz

Keywords

Related Articles

ZURVAN: THE CONCEPT OF TIME IN ZOROASTRIANISM AND ITS IMPACT ON RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

The concept of time is an integral part of any religious and philosophical system. It creates a universal cognitive strategy: seeing the world in its change and development, finding temporary relationships and order in e...

Information warfare: future challenges of Latvia and Ukraine

The article covers a social and philosophical analysis of essential attributes and multiple manifestations of the information hybrid warfare in Latvia and Ukraine. The combination of forms, methods, means and tools in pr...

The camp of interned soldiers of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic in Aleksandriv, Poland in the spring and summer of 1921 (based on the materials of the Central State Archive of the Supreme Governance and Management of Ukraine)

Author puts into scientific use new historical data about domestic life of internee military man. In particular, author analyzes the conditions of the interned Ukrainian warfare in the camp of Alexandriv (Poland) in the...

Underground resistance group of OUN in Mariupol (October 1941 - June 1943)

The article covers the development of the Ukrainian liberation movement in Mariupol from 1941 to 1943. The purpose of the article is to research problems of activities of the underground resistance group of OUN in Mariup...

THE ROLE OF MEDIATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSURANCE MARKET OF UKRAINE

Relevance of the article is determined that the effective functioning of the reinsurance market greatly depends on the development of its infrastructure because it creates opportunities for implementation of reinsurance...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP425897
  • DOI 10.21847/1728-9343.2017.3(149).108122
  • Views 137
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Inna Demuz (2017). Contribution of the Ukrainian National Council in Petrograd in the facility of helping refugees and evictees during the First World War. Схід, 149(3), 35-42. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-425897