User:Obolonska56/Ivan Bandurka

Ivan Bandurka (born January 16, 1954, Yabluniv village, Husiatyn district, Ternopil region) is a Ukrainian teacher, publicist, writer, and public figure. Member of the NUJU (1995). Member of the World Public Organization of the Ukrainian Cossacks (1997), member of the editorial board of the Ukrainian Cossacks newspaper (1998), member of the NUJU (2012). He is a recipient of the Cossack Cross and the Nalyvaiko Award of the Ukrainian Cossacks of France.

Biography
Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Ivano-Frankivsk Pedagogical Institute (1975).

He headed the Yablunivka village council (1980-1994). He initiated the opening of the Ivan Franko Museum in the village (1976), the first monument to soldiers' widows in Ukraine (1984), a monument and memorial plaque to Ivan Franko (1991), and a monument to Taras Shevchenko (1992).

Works
Editor and compiler of M. Paliy's memoirs "Captivity is more bitter than wormwood" (2003), articles "Annals of Ukrainian History".

Author of books published in Ternopil

"Through Thorns to Freedom" (2000),

"Labor on the Altar of the Nation, or the Fate of Mykhailo Paliy (2001),

"Seeds of Life" (2001),

"Four Towers of Bohdan Melnychuk (2002),

"Periwinkle Word World of Yevhen Zozuliak (2003),

"Tourist Ternopil Region (2003, co-author),

"Word Confession, or Free Poems by Volodymyr Barna",

"Orest Savka and His Theater,

"Son of the Podillia Land,

"Shamrock of Ilariya Korchymna".