User:Murdies/Oleksandr Kolyanchuk

Oleksandr Mykolayovych Kolyanchuk (born April 2, 1932, village of Wilka Ternivska, Kholm County, Lublin Voivodeship, Republic of Poland) is a leading Ukrainian figure in Poland, vice-president of the South-Eastern Scientific Institute in Przemyśl (since 1998), Doctor of Philosophy in History (2001), Doctor honoris causa KIRUE (2013), agricultural engineer.

Formation
He was born in Kholm region in a family of peasants; mother — Anastasia Kolyanchuk (Pashchuk), father — Mykola Kolyanchuk. In 1947, during the Vistula Campaign, they were resettled in the northern lands of Poland.

In 1956, he graduated from the Higher Agrarian School in Olsztyn, having obtained a master's degree in engineering. For more than 40 years, he worked in the network of agricultural cooperatives and in the rural-urban system of education, in particular as an inspector of agricultural schools, etc.:

1974–78, deputy director of the Agricultural Development Center in Olsztyn District;

1985–93, general director of the Center for the Development of Agriculture in the Sieradz District;

1983–87, part-time member of the Council of Education under the Minister of Agriculture of Poland, employee of a number of rural magazines.

Host of Ukrainian-language radio broadcasts in Olsztyn — member of the editorial board, responsible editor on the radio (1958–76).

Involved in organizing a network of Ukrainian language learning centers.

Father of two children.

Public work
Joined the creation — the deputy head of the voivodeship board in Olsztyn (1959–65), then a member of the main board of the Ukrainian Socio-Cultural Society of Poland (1971–73).

Member of the Main Council of the Union of Ukrainians in Poland in 1996-2001.

A long-time contributor to Ukrainian periodicals in Poland, in particular the newspaper "Nashe Slovo".

Scientific activity
In 1966-1989, he was the author of about a hundred works in the Polish language on agriculture, in particular, he compiled educational materials, abstracts.

In the early 1990s, he devoted himself to researching the history of joint Ukrainian-Polish relations at the beginning of the 20th century, to journalism in Ukrainian and Polish — the author of a dozen books and brochures, fifty scientific articles, the compiler of about a hundred biographies of Ukrainian military and cultural figures, the author of fifty scientific popular posts.

He began his name as a historian with a unique contribution to the awareness of the military memorials of the 1920s and 1930s and the mass burials of soldiers of the UNR Army interned in Poland in several dozen cities, their care, as well as the publication of handbooks with previously unknown information about the numerous generals of the Ukrainian Liberation Army competitions and several thousand participants of the joint Polish-Ukrainian competitions of 1920.

He defended his academic degree at the Lviv Polytechnic National University based on the monograph Ukrainian Military Emigration in Poland 1920-1939.

In 2013, he was declared an honorary doctor (Doctor honoris causa) of the Kirovohrad Institute of Regional Management and Economy.

The most recently published books are "Umarli, aby zmartwychwstała Ukraina": miejsca przemyśl Ukraińców — participants walk niepodległościowych w latach 1917—1921 w Polsce (2015, Przemyśl, 256 p.), For our and your freedom. Participants of the Ukrainian liberation struggle 1917–1921: Memorial sites in Poland. Handbook (edited by S. Zolotarya, 2018, Drohobych, 288 p.), Ukraińscy emigranci polityczni w żyę naukowym, kulturalnym, społecnym i gospodarczym II RP (ed. Stanisław Stępień, 2018, Przemyśl, 389 pp.).

Wife — Lidia Kolyanchuk (from Yevusiak-Trembach house) — ophthalmologist, public figure, philanthropist; in 1998-2001 — head of the Ukrainian Medical Society in Poland, member of the board of the World Federation of Ukrainian Medical Societies.