Milena Ivanovna Rudnitskaya ( Ukrainian: Milena Ivanivna Rudnitska , Polish. Milena Rudnycka ; July 15, 1892, Zborov - March 29, 1976, Munich ) - activist of Ukrainian nationalism, political and social activist, journalist, teacher, activist of the Ukrainian National Democratic Association (UNDO) , head of the central council of the Union of Ukrainians (since 1928). In 1928-1935 she was a deputy of the Polish Sejm of the second and third cadence.
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| Date of Birth | July 15, 1892 |
| Place of Birth | Zborov , Poland |
| Date of death | March 29, 1976 ( 83) |
| Place of death | Munich , Germany |
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| Occupation | , , , |
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She was a teacher at the school, then, in 1921-1928, a teacher at the Higher Pedagogical Courses in Lviv (Lviv). She was the chairman of the Central Council of the Union of Ukrainians in Lviv, a member of the Ukrainian Women's Congress in Stanislavov (now Ivano-Frankivsk ) in 1934, a member of the World Association of Ukrainians and the organization "Princess Olga’s Friendship".
She was an active member of UNDO. In 1928-1935 she was a deputy of the Polish Sejm, a member of the education and foreign affairs committees in it. As a representative of the so-called Ukrainian parliamentary representation, she sent petitions to the League of Nations, including in connection with the pacification of Eastern Galicia in 1930 and in connection with the mass famine of 1932-1933 in the Ukrainian SSR .
In 1936-1939 she was a member of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Contact Committee in Lviv. In 1935-1939, she edited the bimonthly magazine Zhinka.
After the Soviet invasion of Poland and the occupation of Lviv by the Red Army, she left the city with her son, fled to the zone of German occupation of Poland. Initially, she remained in Krakow, in the summer of 1940 went to Berlin, and then, in 1943, to Prague. From 1945 she remained in exile - first in Feldkirch , and from 1946 she lived in Geneva , where he went at the invitation of the International Red Cross , and in 1946-1950 she was president of the Ukrainian Assistance Committee. In 1950-1958 she was an employee of the Ukrainian newspaper Svoboda in New York , and in 1956-1960 she worked for Radio Liberty in Munich . She lived in New York, Rome and Munich. In 1948-1950 she was a representative of the so-called Ukrainian People’s Council in Switzerland .
Her husband was Pavlo Lysyak , her son was Ivan Lysyak-Rudnitsky , her brother was Ivan Kedrin-Rudnitsky .
September 20, 1997, her ashes were reburied at the Lychakiv cemetery .
Bibliography
- Kto był kim w Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej (redakcja naukowa Jacek M. Majchrowski przy współpracy Grzegorza Mazura i Kamila Stepana), Warszawa, 1994, wyd. BGW, ISBN 8370665691 s. 417, biogram opracował Czesław Brzoza.
- Rudnitska Мілена Іванівна w: Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine : T. 7. Editorial Board : V. A. Smoliy (head) and ін. NAS of Ukraine. Institute of History of Ukraine. - Kiev 2010, Wyd. "Science Dumka." ISBN 966-00-0632-2 .
- Gachkovsky M. Milena Rudnitska - Ukrainian woman and national woman, member of the Polish Sejm in 1928–1935 / M. Gachkovsky // Humanitarian science. - 2011. - No. 2. - S. 126-133.