YAROSLAV DOROSHENKO

He loved the autumn - with miracle patterns of Indian summer webs, with sad variety of golden leaves shades.

Leaves are the most beautiful and the most close to sunny colours at the end of their lives, before falling down from the branch to the ground.

Yaroslav Doroshenko was an optimistic person who loved life more than it loved him ... He lived for people, cherished the poetry for them, and gave them his love and friendship - freely, openly and unequivocally...

Fotii Volodymyrskyi (Ukrainian: ФотійВолодимирський ) was born on September 1, 1924 in Vyshnevets village, Zbarazh district of Ternopil region. At the age of 19 he joined the ranks of the UIA, where he was assigned to the sotnia of "Chip" under the pseudonym “Muha (the Fly)”.

In June of 1943, he was shot in the arm and leg for the first time during the fight with the Germans in Kolodne village (near Zbarazh). After the medical treatment he worked at the Security Service of the District. In 1944 he was sent to gendarmerie of the kurin “Nalyvayko”. During the World War II he fought as a member of the UIA in Volyn and Lviv regions. Then his kurin was sent to Kholmshchyna to fight against the Polish Home Army, which terrorized the Ukrainians, who lived there. They crossed the front line and in August of 1944 they returned to Volyn. And again they made a raid in Volyn and Lviv regions, where in December of 1944 Fotii Volodymyrskyi was wounded in both legs by a grenade in Nyvytsi village of the Radehiv district.

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He was being treated but on March 13, 1945 he was caught by the NKVD (The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs). He spent the whole year on remand in prison in Lopatyn (Lviv region). After this he was sentenced to 10 years` imprisonment. He served his imprisonment in Komi Republic in Inta. After the end of the “serving the punishment” he had no right to return to Ukraine, so for 23 years he was working in the coal mines of Inta.

Since 1990 Fotii Volodymyrskyi was in the ranks of the OUN-UIA Brotherhood. In 1994 he was elected as the Chairman of the OUN-UIA Brotherhood of the Carpathian region.

He was a tireless fighter for the independence of Ukraine.

 

 

Mykola Bilchuk (ukrainian: Микола Більчук ) – an artist, a teacher, a director of Ivano-Frankivsk art school, the graduates of which made a pleiad of famous artists. He loved the life, his job and family more than anything. His works are not monumental, but sincere and warm. Most of them retain the beauty of Ivano-Frankivsk.

Mykola Bilchuk was born in Zapadyntsi village (Krasyliv district of Khmelnytska region) in the family of a deacon in 1928. Mykola Vasyliovych said that Soviet officials did not know how to name his father’s profession, and called him as a "devotee of cult." He obtained his artistic skills while studying in Lviv Art College from 1945 to 1948.  After graduating from the college, Mykola Bilchuk arrived in Ivano-Frankivsk (Stanislaviv at that time) where he worked in the Art Union. Later he joined military service, and after demobilization he studied in Stanislaviv Pedagogical Institute. After graduating from institute he worked there as a teacher of fine arts (1959-1964).

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

January 12, 1924 – November 01, 2009

‘I was born on January 12, 1924 in Przemysl in Zasyannya. My father – Mykhailo Malkosh – was born in 1887 in Kinkivtsi village near Przemysl. He was an accounting sergeant major of the Austrian army, a simple worker during the Polish ruler. In 1945 he moved to Stanislaviv (the Soviet Union) and worked as an accountant until his retirement. My mother, Chrystyna Mykytivna from the Hyzha home, born in Lypa village near Bircha of the Przemysl County, was a housewife.

In 1929, at the age of 5, I was enrolled in primary school of the Sisters of Saint Basil the Great in Zasyannya, a suburb of Przemysl. In 1935 I graduated the sixth grade of the school and was enrolled to the public school with Ukrainian language of instruction in Przemysl. I was the youngest student in the class and graduated from the Humanities Lyceum, but on September 1 the Second World War broke out and the training did not begin.

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