Avgustyn Voloshyn Monument

My first time being in Ukraine was an amazing experience. I'm not sure of the history behind the monument since everything is in Ukrainian. But it sits alongside the Uzhgorod river. I was there in July which was a fairly hot time of the year. There are benches alongside the river where you can sit and just do some people watching and there are many stores and shops with in a 5 minute walk.

Nice monument to take a picture on Uzh river

So interesting

Great art, great monument.

This monument to Augustin Voloshin who was born on March 18, 1874 in the village. Kelechin, Mizhhirya district, in the family of a Greek Catholic priest. He studied at a rural public school, but entered the Uzhgorod gymnasium only after the fourth grade of the so-called normal school in 1883, having mastered a certain way of Hungarian. He graduated from high school in 1892, and the Greek Catholic bishop recommended him to the Faculty of Theology at the University of Budapest. After falling ill, he left the university a year later and returned to Uzhhorod, where he graduated from theological seminary. On March 22, 1897, he was ordained a priest and sent to the Uzhhorod Transfiguration Church in Tseholny. He actively opposed the Madarization of the Ukrainian population and the translation of worship into Hungarian. He participated in meetings on this issue in Budapest, in particular, opposed the replacement of the Cyrillic alphabet with Latin. To become a teacher of urban schools, he passed additional exams. During 1900-1917 he was a professor, and in 1917-1938 he was the director of the Uzhhorod Teachers' Seminary. In 1921 he began publishing the religious newspaper Blagovesnyk to defend the church from attacks by various denominations, and became an active defender of the publication of all religious textbooks for public schools in the Ukrainian language. In 1928 he organized the "Circle of the Clergy of the Christian People's Party" for a wide missionary and educational activity among the flock. In 1933 he transferred his own house to an orphanage (now Voloshin Street). As a professor and director of the seminary, he wrote and published 63 textbooks, including grammars, reading books, primers, methodical works. Some have been republished several times. He was a publisher and, at the same time, a journalist, organizer of the publication of the annual "Lunar Words", edited the newspaper "Science", reorganized it into "Freedom" (in July 1938 it became "New Freedom"). He was a contributor to many newspapers of the region, published in the 20-30's, as well as a writer: published under the pseudonym A. Verkhovynsky, wrote plays "Mariyka Verkhovynka", "Without God not to the threshold", "Prince Laborets", " Son of the Silver Land "," Fabiola ". Augustyn Voloshin entered the political path in 1919, when he decided to join Czechoslovakia in three people's councils - Uzhhorod, Khust and Presov. During 1919-1921 he was a member of the temporary government formation - the Directory. From 1923 to 1938 he headed the Christian People's Party of Subcarpathian Russia, from which he was a member of the Czechoslovak Parliament in 1925-1929. In 1920-1939 he became one of the leaders of the regional society "Enlightenment", and from 1929 to 1939 - the honorary chairman of the "Teachers' Community", which he organized. In 1937-1938 he headed the Pedagogical Society of Subcarpathian Russia, and in 1938 he initiated the establishment of a higher educational institution with four faculties in Uzhhorod on the basis of the Ukrainian Free University. The struggle for the autonomy of Subcarpathian Russia lasted throughout the 1930s. On October 11, 1938, the Council of Ministers of Czechoslovakia, after lengthy negotiations, agreed to the self-government of the region and appointed a Council of Ministers of Subcarpathian Russia headed by Andriy Brody consisting of three ministers and two secretaries of state. Augustyn Voloshin became Secretary of State for Health and Welfare. On October 12, 1938, the Subcarpathian ministers took the oath. When he returned home, he held his first meeting on October 15. Andriy Brody was arrested on October 26, 1938 in Prague for his policy in favor of Hungary. A. Voloshin became the new prime minister of Subcarpathian Russia, who suffered severe tests during the construction of Carpathian Ukraine. On November 1, 1938, A. Voloshin and his assistants went to the Vienna Arbitration, where the cities of Uzhhorod, Mukachevo, Beregovo, and some villages were selected from Subcarpathian Russia and handed over to Hungary. Khust became the new capital of the region, where state institutions and services were evacuated. Only three remained in the government, A. Voloshin, Y. Revai, and E. Bachynsky. On November 9, 1938, the Carpathian Sich People's Defense Organization (ONOX) was established in Khust, headed by Commander-in-Chief Dmytro Klympush.