Oleksa Volianskyi

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Oleksa Mykolaiovych Volianskyi (Ukrainian: Олекса Миколайович Волянський; 7 October 1862 – 2 March 1947) was a Ukrainian priest, ethnographer, cultural and educational activist. Full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1905).[1]

Biography

Oleksa Volianskyi was born on 7 October 1862, in Zvyniach, now Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada in the Chortkiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast, to at. Mykola Volianskyi and Pavlina of Borovskyi's family.[2]

Graduated from the Lviv Theological Seminary. He served in parishes in the town of Tovste (1887–1889, employee, now a village in Chortkiv Raion),[3] Siret (1889–1893, administrator, now Romania),[4] Kryvorivnia (1893–1923, now Verkhovyna Raion), and Sokolivka (since 1923, now Kosiv Raion).[5]

Head of the Prosvita reading society in Kryvorivnia. It is known that at. Oleksa Volianskyi helped Volodymyr Shukhevych collect materials for a book about the Hutsul region. He had a large library and archive, which were burned by Russian officers during World War I.[5]

His home in Kryvorivnia was visited by Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Hrushevsky,[2] Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Hnat Khotkevych, Vasyl Stefanyk,[2] Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Olha Kobylianska, Antin Krushelnytsky,[2] Ivan Krypiakevych, Oleksandr Oles, Marko Cheremshyna, Yevhen Tymchenko, Ivan Trush, Andrey Sheptytsky,[6] Hryhoriy Khomyshyn,[2] and others.[5]

He corresponded with I. Franko, V. Hnatiuk, and M. Kotsiubynsky. He left memories of I. Franko, M. Kotsiubynsky and others.[5] Letters to V. Hnatiuk are kept in the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine.[1]

Died on 2 March 1947 in Sokolivka, Kosiv Raion, where he was buried.[2]

Family

In 1886, he married Mariia Burachynska, the daughter of a priest, at. Andrii Burachynskyi from Kryvorivnia.[2] They had three children – Volodymyra, Roman, and Kekyliia.[7]

Honoring the memory

Memorial plaques in honor of at. Oleksa Volianskyi were installed on the facades of churches in Kryvorivnia and Sokolivka.[2]

On the occasion of the 155th anniversary of the birth of Oleksa Volianskyi:[2]

  • 2012 was proclaimed the "Year of Oleksa Volianskyi" in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast;
  • At the initiative of the NGO Zelenyi Svit, a Carpathian yew tree was planted in honor of at. Volianskyi in Zvyniach, Chortkiv Raion, as well as linden trees in Kryvorivnia and Sokolivka.

References

  1. 1.[1.2](in Ukrainian) Арсенич, П., Волянський Олекса Миколайович //Ternopil Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 4 v. / editorial board: H. Yavorskyi and other, Ternopil: "Zbruch", 2004, V. 1: А—Й, S. 330. — ISBN 966-528-197-6.
  2. 2.[2.2][2.3][2.4][2.5][2.6][2.7][2.8][2.9]Олександр Степаненко (2017-11-12). "Олекса Волянський: «Дати народу якісну освіту, а народ сам дасть собі раду!»". Золота пектораль.
  3. 3.(in English) Tluste //Dmytro Blazheyovskyi. Historical sematism of the Eparchy of Stanyslaviv: From its establishment until the outbreak of World War II (1885–1938). — Записки ЧСВВ, Секція I. — Т. 51. Lviv: Misioner, 2002. — P. 217. — ISBN 966-658-028-4.
  4. 4.(in English) Seret //Dmytro Blazheyovskyi. Historical sematism of the Eparchy of Stanyslaviv: From its establishment until the outbreak of World War II (1885–1938). — Записки ЧСВВ, Секція I. — Т. 51. Lviv: Misioner, 2002. — P. 194. — ISBN 966-658-028-4.
  5. 5.[5.2][5.3][5.4]Волянський Олекса Миколайович, П. І. Арсенич, Енциклопедія Сучасної України [Електронний ресурс], Редкол.: І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк [та ін.]; НАН України, НТШ, К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2006.
  6. 6.Галина Терещук (2012-08-21). "Криворівня — село, що напуває спокоєм (фото, відео)". Радіо Свобода.
  7. 7.Ганна Пророчук (2023-11-07). "Олекса Волянський — священик і громадсько-культурний діяч Гуцульщини". Гуцульський край. Archived from the original on 2023-10-14.