In Ivano-Frankivsk celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Eugene Konovalets
In Ivano-Frankivsk celebrate the 125th birthday of the founder and conductor of the OUN, Colonel Eugene Konovalets. It is reported . After the memorial service and laying flowers at the monument ' monument to Ukrainian activist on the street that bears his name’I, the Grand chamber with participation of representatives of regional and city officials, clergy, veterans of the liberation competitions, youth. “Konovalets had a special mission in the history of Ukraine – to awaken those people who doubted and feared, to form the fighting core, which gave an impetus to other Ukrainians to create native state», – said the head of Department of culture, nationalities and religions of Ivano-Frankivsk regional state administration Vladimir Fedorko. Also in Ivano-Frankivsk under the open sky deployed a banner exhibition " Eugene Konovalets – homecoming”, made on the basis of materials from the archives of the OUN from abroad. According to the Director of the Museum of liberation struggle named after Stepan Bandera and Yaroslav Korotchuk, “most of these materials were little known or unavailable for the Ukrainian public”. Konovalets was born June 14, 1891 in the village of Zashkiv, Zhovkva district, Lviv region. Konovalets was a Colonel in the UNR army, comandanta SVR, Chairman of the wire of Ukrainian nationalists (1927), the first Chairman of the OUN. May 23, 1938, Konovalets was killed in Rotterdam in a special operation conducted by the NKVD of the USSR. The first Museum of the founder of the organization of Ukrainian nationalists is in the village Zashkiv in the Lviv region.Ïåðåâåäåíî ñåðâèñîì "ßíäåêñ.Ïåðåâîä÷èê": translate.yandex.ru.
Source: http://uzinform.com.ua/
