Builder of the Ukrainian State Beyond the Carpathians (To the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Avhustyn Voloshyn and the 85th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of Carpathian Ukraine)

Abstract

The goal is to comprehensively examine the main milestones of the life path and multifaceted activity of A. Voloshyn — President of Carpathian Ukraine, outstanding public-political, state, and cultural figure, recognized leader of the Ukrainian national and cultural movement in interwar Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia), with whose name the national revival of Zakarpattia Ukrainians in the first half of the 20th century is quite naturally associated.

The next research methods were used: biographical, prosopographical, problem-chronological, historical-comparative, and retrospective.

The Scientific novelty consists in the objective determination of the role of A. Voloshyn in the history of Zakarpattia and the processes of Ukrainian state formation in the 20th century, highlighting the historical conditions for the formation of his worldview, nationalcultural orientation, and political views, as well as church-religious, cultural-educational, pedagogical, social-political and statesmanship activities of A. Voloshyn.

Conclusions. Thanks to the active work of A. Voloshyn, as the leader of the Ukrainian national and cultural movement in interwar Zakarpattia and the head of the autonomous government of Pidkarpatska Rus (Subcarpathian Rus) — Carpathian Ukraine, the proclamation of an independent Ukrainian state beyond the Carpathians became possible 85 years ago (on March 15, 1939) as one of the stages of Ukrainian state formation and a phenomenon in the recent Ukrainian history.