Bohdan Pastukh (; 17 September 1924 – 26 November 2008) was a Ukrainian literary critic, artist, teacher, public figure. Participant of the

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. Grandfather of Taras Pastukh.Пастух Богдан Васильович
/ Т. В. Пастух // Енциклопедія Сучасної України �лектронний ресурс/ Редкол. : І. М. Дзюба, А. І. Жуковський, М. Г. Железняк �а ін.; НАН України, НТШ, К. : Інститут енциклопедичних досліджень НАН України, 2023.

Biography

Bohdan Pastukh was born on 17 September 1924 in

Kupchyntsi Купчинці () is a village in Kupchyntsi rural hromada, Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. History The first written mention dates back to 1312. In the village there was also a castle built in the 17th century, which has not surviv ...

, now the Kupchyntsi rural hromada of the

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, Ukraine. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of the Kremenets Teachers' Institute (now

Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University (commonly referred to as TNPU; Ukrainian: ) is a university located in Ternopil, Ukraine. TNPU provides courses in the sciences and humanities with a focus on education and teaching. ...

) and the Faculty of Philology of the Voroshylovhrad Pedagogical Institute (1952, now University of Luhansk). For 40 years, he worked as a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature at a secondary school in Vrubivskyi.

Public activities

In 1993–2008, he was the first and honorary chairman of the

Prosvita Prosvita (), since 1991 officially known as All-Ukrainian Prosvita Society named after Taras Shevchenko () is an enlightenment society aimed to preserve and develop Ukrainian culture, education and science, that was created in the nineteenth cen ...

Luhansk Regional Association; chairman of the

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Luhansk Regional Society. In 1998, he initiated the establishment of the People's Memorial and Literary Museum and the construction of a monument to

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in Oleksiivka,

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(now part of

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). He also initiated the creation of the Pavlo Dumka Museum in his native village.

Works

Author of publications related to language, culture, and literary studies. He created more than 100 bookplates of

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood o ...

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Volodymyr Sosiura Volodymyr Mykolaiovych Sosiura (; 6 January 1898 – 8 January 1965) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian lyric poet, writer, veteran of Ukrainian-Soviet war. Brief biography Volodymyr Sosiura was born in a settlement of Debaltseve railway station (today ...

; ex libris for the libraries of

Ivanna Blazhkevych Ivanna Omelyanivna Blazhkevych (9 October 1886 — 2 March 1977) was a Ukrainian children's writer, public figure, and educator. Early life and education Ivanna Blazhkevych, maiden surname Borodievych, was born on 9 October 1886 in the village ...

, Borys Demkiv, and

Maksym Rylsky Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky (); in Kyiv – 24 July 1964 in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, academician, and doctor of philological sciences. Biography Rylsky was born in Kyiv in 1895 to Tadei Rozeslavovych Rylsky and Melania Fedoriv ...

i.Шкільний, В. Лицар українського слова // Літературний Тернопіль, 2009, No. 2, s. 135–138. Books: * "Poet nizhnosti, tryvohy i boliu: ro Volodymyra Sosiuru (1998), * "Borys Hrinchenko – bezkompromisnyi lytsar natsionalnoi idei" (1999), * "Trokhym Zinkivskyi – syn Ukrainy – “kreshtal kryvavoi sliozy”" (2001).

Awards

* Borys Hrinchenko Prize (2003); * Prize of the All-Ukrainian Cultural and Scientific Foundation of Taras Shevchenko "V svoii khati svoia pravda, i syla, i volia" (2008).

References

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pastukh, Bohdan 1924 births 2008 deaths Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatyuk National Pedagogical University alumni Ukrainian male painters Ukrainian educational theorists Ukrainian activists Prosvita Ukrainian people of World War II People from Kupchyntsi, Ternopil Oblast