{{onesource, date=December 2018 The Ukrainian Club is a social organization that was created in

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

in 1908. It was closed in 1912, but revived in 2002.

Personalities

* Kukharuk Roman - head of Ukrainian Club; * Lytvynenko Vitaliy Viktorovych - adviser of the head of Ukrainian Club in the field of interconfessional dialogue, Ukrainian journalist.

History

The Ukrainian Club (Ukrainian: Український клуб, transliteration: Ukrayins'kyi klub) was a union of national public figures of Ukraine headed by

Mykola Lysenko Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (; 22 March 1842 – 6 November 1912) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist of the late Romantic period. In his time he was the central figure of Ukrainian music, with an ''oeuvre'' tha ...

. The club's meetings were attended by the Ukrainian writers

Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky Ivan Semenovych Nechuy-Levytsky (born Levytsky; – 2 April 1918) was a well-known Ukrainian writer. Biography Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky was born on to the family of a peasant priest in Stebliv (Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine). In 1847 he en ...

Lesya Ukrainka Lesya Ukrainka (, ; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, ; – ) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays. She was also an active political, civil, and feminist activist. Among her best-known works are ...

, her mother Olena Pchilka and Maxim Rylsky—then a gymnasium pupil—as well as the actors Mariya Zankovetska and Mykola Sadovsky. In addition, Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Panas Myrny, and

Ivan Franko Ivan Yakovych Franko (, ; 27 August 1856 – 28 May 1916) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first d ...

visited the club during their stays in Kyiv. In 1912, the Kiev City Council had closed the Ukrainian Club, accusing it of subversive activity. But soon, another Ukrainian society, Rodyna, was arranged in the same building where the former Ukrainian Club met. When the city's administration gave permission to organize the Rodyna club, it was assumed that the stress mark on the first syllable meant motherland, Rodina. However, the members of the club always called it Rodyna (translated as family in Ukrainian).

Sources

Сторінка Українського клубу на сайті «Літературний форум».
Organizations established in 1908 Cultural organizations based in Ukraine 1908 establishments in the Russian Empire

Personalities

History

See also

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