Interesting facts from the daily life of Ukrainian emigrants in interwar Czechoslovachchyna (1921 – 1939)

Abstract

The purpose of the article. This article contains information about interesting facts from the lives of Ukrainian emigrants who ended up in interwar Czechoslovachcyna in the early 1920s. Ukrainian emigrants went abroad as a result of the defeat of the national‑liberation struggle of 1917-1921. The following went abroad: former military personnel of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR), the West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUPR), the Kuban People's Republic (KPR); government officials of the UPR, ZUPR, KPR; employees of foreign representative offices of the latter - diplomatic, political, economic, sanitary missions; civilians. The publication is based on the memories and memoirs of emigrants. Interesting facts from the lives of Dmytro Chyzhevsky, Andriy Makarenko, Serhii Shelukhin, Dmytro Antonovych, Trokhym Pasichnyk, Oleksandr Oles, Fedir Slyusarenko are presented among the figures of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Interesting facts from the life of Stepan Rudnytskyi and Nestor Nyzhankivskyi are presented among ZUPR figures. Hryhoriy Omelchenko is represented among the figures of the Kuban People's Republic. The research methodology involves the application of the principles of critical analysis and comparison. The scientific novelty of the research is the display of worldview and human behavior in the center of historical analysis Conclusions. This scientific research is important for three reasons. First, it is relevant not as a dry biographical reference, but as an object with which every person can identify himself. Secondly, interesting patterns of the era of the 1920s and 1930s emerge, which allow a better understanding of the era itself (scientific and technical innovations, fashion, food, music and book preferences, etc.). Thirdly, the history of Ukrainian emigration in the interwar Czechoslovak SSR contains specific life-tested recipes for survival in difficult times.