Ukraine. Kit of Sets of Circulated Coins of 2021 "Yevhen Konovalets". Original.

Description: Country: UkraineType: Kit of sets of coins from the anniversary series "Heroes of Ukraine"Mint: Coins were minted at the Kyiv Mint of the National Bank of UkraineYear: 2021Denominations: 1 Hryvnia (6 types); 2 Hryvni (12 types); 5 Hryven (6 types); 10 Hryven (6 types)Metal: Nickel plated steel (1 Hryvnia & 2 Hryvni); Nickel plated zinc (5 & 10 Hryven)Postage Stamp PPU: Denominations: 25. Private Anniversary IssueChairman of the NBU in 2021:Kyrylo Evhenovych Shevchenko Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets (Ukrainian: Євген Михайлович Коновалець; June 14, 1891 – May 23, 1938), was a military commander of the Ukrainian National Republic army, veteran of the Ukrainian-Soviet War and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. He is best known as the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists from its foundation in 1929 until his assassination in 1938.Konovalets was born June 14, 1891, in the village of Zashkiv in the Austro-Hungarian Galicia; today it is in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. In his youth he studied in Lviv at the Lviv Academic Gymnasium and in 1909 enrolled in the University of Lviv, where he studied mathematics. In 1910 he participated in the protest to accommodate Ukrainians with their own university in Lviv. He became an active member of the Prosvita, the Ukrainian educational association, and a representative in the Executive Committee of the National-Democratic Party. He became the secretary of the Lviv department of the Prosvita organization in 1912. In 1913 he became one of the leaders of the local student movement.As a student Konovalets joined Ukrainian National Democratic Party. The life of young Yevhen was characterised by outward modesty and high demands on himself in all areas where he engaged in activities. In the years from 1909 to 1912, after completing his secondary education, Konovalets immersed himself in social activities in his hometown and neighboring villages, giving lectures and organizing educational Prosvita (Enlightenment) and sport "Sokil" (Falcon) societies. During the final years of gymnasium and early student years, Yevhen Konovalets chose "Prosvita" because he believed it was the only way to provide mass education in the native language, overcome pro-moscow influences, and awaken national sentiments among the people.In 1922, Olha Fedak married Yevhen Konovalets. Their son Yurko, born in January 1924, was surrounded by the care of his parents, who shared a harmonious marital relationship characterised by attention and mutual respect. Due to constant forced relocations, Yurko had to learn a different language for his studies each time: German, French, Italian, but at home, his mother insisted on him communicating in the native Ukrainian language.In the summer of 1914, Konovalets was mobilized into the Austro-Hungarian Army and during the First World War rose to the rank of a second lieutenant serving in the 19th Regiment of the Lviv Regional Defense. In 1915 he was taken prisoner of war by the Russians during the battles near the mountain Makivka (Carpathian Mountains) and interned in a POW camp near Tsaritsyn, Chornyi Yar. In 1916 he was transferred into the concentration camp near Dubovka. While in captivity he joined a group of former Galician officers (such as Andriy Melnyk, Roman Sushko, and Fed Chernyk among others) who fled to Kyiv together. In November 1917, together with the Galician-Bucovina Committee, he organized the Halytsko-Bukovynsky Kurin of the Sich Riflemen as part of the Doroshenko Regiment. Two months later he assumed its command and helped suppress the Communist uprising in Kyiv as well as resisting the Antonov-Ovseenko offensive. In March 1918 his riflemen, together with the Zaporizhia Corps of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the reformed Haydamaky Kish of the Sloboda Ukraine, liberated Kyiv from the Soviets.In the summer of 1918 he convinced Pavlo Skoropadskyi, Hetman of Ukraine, to create a Special Platoon of Sich Riflemen, which was established in Bila Tserkva. On December 6, 1919, by the Order of the Head Otaman he demobilized his military formations. The same year he was taken prisoner and interned in a Polish POW camp in Lutsk, although he was released in the spring of 1920 and moved to Czechoslovakia. In 1920, as a result of the shattered struggle for Ukrainian independence, Konovalets set up a new organization capable of clandestine activities on the lands claimed by Ukrainians and controlled by Russian SFSR. Created in August of that year in Prague, the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) was aimed at armed resistance against and Russia. The foundation of the organization became the leaders of the Ukrainian Halych Army. After the end of the Polish–Soviet War and the battle for Lviv, Konovalets became the leader of the UVO in the city.During his exile years he lived in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. In 1929 he took part in the first congress of Ukrainian nationalists in Vienna. During the congress it was decided to form the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), and Konovalets was elected as its leader. He then actively promoted its influence among the Ukrainian emigres throughout Europe and America while establishing contacts with intelligence offices of Lithuania, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and others. With his direct help were formed the Societies of Sich Riflemen in North America. The goal of the OUN was to revive an independent Ukraine through armed struggle.Konovalets' activities raised fears in the Kremlin because of penetration of the OUN into the Soviet Union. On May 23, 1938, he was assassinated in Rotterdam by a bomb rigged to explode hidden inside a box of chocolates. This booby-trap was disguised as a present from a close friend. This friend, however, was in reality an NKVD agent who had infiltrated the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Pavel Sudoplatov, who on a recent visit to the Soviet Union had been personally ordered by Joseph Stalin to assassinate Konovalets. Pavel Sudoplatov had beforehand slipped into Finland in July 1935. Due to his sudden disappearance, the OUN immediately suspected Sudoplatov of Konovalets' murder. Therefore, a photograph of Sudoplatov and Konovalets together was distributed to every OUN unit.In 2006, the Lviv city administration announced the future transference of the remains of Yevhen Konovalets, Stepan Bandera, Andriy Melnyk and other key leaders of OUN and UPA to a new area of Lychakiv Cemetery specifically dedicated to heroes of the Ukrainian liberation movement. On June 17, 2011, in Vilnius, Lithuania the conference "Yevhen Konovalets: Lithuanian citizen - the Ukrainian patriot. Celebration of 120th birthday" was organised by the Lithuanian Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, People's Liberation Movement Research Centre (Ukraine) and Ukrainian organizations in Lithuania.

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