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UDK 94:796(477.83-25)”19″(092)

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

CHECKED THE TIME WITH «OMEGA»: VOLODYMYR BYLEN’ (1914—1989) — ATHLETE, COOPERATOR, PATRIOT (MEMORY SILVER)

MOVNA Ulyana

  • ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9763-2455
  • Doctor of Sciences of History, Senior Researcher,
  • Leading Researcher of the Institute of Ethnology
  •  of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • in the Department of Historical Ethnology,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: movlana@ukr.net

MOVNA Marianna

  • ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2473-6998
  • PhD. of Historical Sciences,
  • Acting head of department of the Vasyl Stefanyk
  • National Scientific Library of Ukraine of Lviv
  • National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • in Department of Scientific Bibliography,
  • 2, Stefanyka str., 79000, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: mari3anna@ukr.net

Abstract. The article highlights the professional, sports and public activities of the graduate of the branch of the Ukrainian Academic Gymnasium (UAG), cooperator, active member of the sports society «Sokil-Bat’ko», sincere Ukrainian patriot Volodymyr Bylen’ (1914—1989), whose nation-building vector of activity undeservedly remained unknown to the general public. The relevance of the topic lies in the fact that the article is dedicated to the anniversary date — the 110th anniversary of his birth. The personal life of V. Bylen’ is introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, since there are no special studies of it in Ukrainian historiography. From the perspective of microhistory the focus of attention is on the most important aspects of the biography, professional activities and public initiatives of this figure: studying at the branch of the UAG, work in the network of Ukrainian cooperation, active sports work in the «Sokil-Bat’ko» society, aimed at the development of physical education culture of Ukrainian society.

The life of Volodymyr Bylen’ — a cooperator, an active athlete and an active patriot — fell on the turbulent times of military cataclysms and political catastrophes of the 20th century. He was born in 1914 in the Austrian Galicia, when the First World War began, and his youth was spent in the difficult realities of life in interwar Poland. The professional and public engagement of this figure (gymnasium education, long-term conscientious work in the network of Ukrainian cooperation, active sports and educational activities in the «Sokil-Bat’ko» society, public expression of civic position in current political circumstances) during the period of statelessness was aimed not only at the development of the economic and physical culture of Ukrainian society, but also at the consolidation of Ukrainians as an ethnic community, their economic and cultural independence in the conditions of the Polish state.

Keywords: Volodymyr Bylen’, Ukrainian Academic Gymnasium (branch), Ivan Babiy, sports movement, «Sokil-Bat’ko», track and field athletics, cooperation, «Suspilnyj Promysl», Lviv.

Received 20.01.2025

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