Spadshchyna

Spadshchyna
Українознавчий клуб «Спадщина»
AbbreviationSpadshchyna
Successorclub "Naukova Spadschina" / клуб «Наукова спадщина»
FormationDecember 1987 (38 years ago) (1987-12)
EstablishedJanuary 27, 1988 (1988-01-27)
FoundersViktor Kulynych [uk], Ivan Zaiets [uk], Leonid Dobriansky [Wikidata], Oleksa Nehrebets'kyi et al.
Founded at45a Volodymyrska Street, Kyiv
DissolvedOctober 2012 (14 years ago) (2012-10)

Spadshchyna (Ukrainian: Українознавчий клуб «Спадщина», lit. 'heritage'), also known as Ukrainian Studies Club, was a Ukrainian non-governmental organisation devoted to the protection of Ukrainian cultural heritage, the promotion of Ukrainian as a state language and opposition to nuclear power in Ukraine. Spadshchyna and its members took an active part in establishing the People's Movement of Ukraine, the popular front organisation advocating for Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union.

History

Spadshchyna was founded on the basis of the Kyiv's House of Scientists [uk] Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. It was Ivan Zaiets, Victor Kulynych, Leonid Dobrianskyi, Yaroslav Fedoryn, Leonid Dmytrenko, Olexander Mosijuk and other young scientists of Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, who were inspired by Ukrainian Culturological Club to establish Spadshchyna.

On 13 November 1988, Spadshchyna was an organiser of a public event in Kyiv - "The Ecology and Us", a meeting of more than ten thousand people held under the ecological slogans. At the same time their speakers, for example, Ukrainian writers Dmytro Pavlychko and Liudmyla Taranenko [uk], expressed support for the establishment of a popular front organisation. Many of Spadshchyna's members took part in establishing the People's Movement of Ukraine, as managers or executive staff..

Spadshchyna also co-hosted an event with the Institute of History of the Ukrainian SSR on 5 December 1988 honouring historian and politician Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Around 800 people attended the event, filling the hall of the Section of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences (Kirov Street, 4).

During the 1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election, one of the members of Spadshchyna, Ivan Zaiets was elected as a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR. Olexander Mosijuk was elected to the Kyiv City Council, Igor Shcherbak became a deputy to Kyiv's Pechersk District Council. Olexander Mosijuk as a vice-chair of Kyiv City Council officially lifted the Ukrainian flag over the Kyiv City Hall on 24 July 1990..

Spadshchyna called for the restoration of Ukrainian as the state language and of Ukrainian national symbols as the symbols of the country, for the revival of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, for creating the Ivan Honchar Museum.

References

  1. 1 2 Dobrianskyi, Leonid (2024). Спогади про українознавчий клуб "Спадщина" в Києві 1987-1991 років [Memories of The Club of Ukrainian Studies “Spadshchyna” in Kyiv, 1987–1991] (in Ukrainian) (2nd ed.)
  2. ↑ Pipko, Antonina (November, 2023). Перший мітинг у Києві 1988 року - передвісник Майданів. Матеріали форуму “Революція Гідності на шляху до історії”. [The first meeting in Kyiv 1988 - the harbinger of Maidans. Materials of Forum “Revolution of Dignity on the way to history”] (in Ukrainian).
  3. ↑ Mykola Zharkykh (6 March 2011). "Повернення Михайла Грушевського: як це було у 1988-му" [The return of Mykhailo Hrushevsky: How things were in 1988]. Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 27 November 2024.
  4. 1 2 Dzhuma, Natalia (9 June 2021). "До 30-річчя Незалежності України: До архіву передано документи організації, з якої починався Народний рух України. ФОТО" [30th anniversary of Ukrainian independence: documents of organisations from which the People's Movement of Ukraine began transferred to archives (PHOTOS)]. Censor.net (in Ukrainian).
  5. ↑ Mosijuk, Olexander (2018). “День прапора” [The Day of flag] (in Ukrainian)