RECOGNITION OF THE HUTSUL REPUBLIC WITH THE WEST-UKRAINIAN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC

Abstract

On January 9, 1919, a 42-member Ukrainian People’s Council with a 12-member General Administra- tion was elected at the Yasinіa village in Transcarpathia, which proclaimed the Hutsul Republic as an indepen- dent state. In the first days, the Hutsul Republic engaged in relations with the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (hereinafter ZUNR), requesting its military assistance. Unofficial assistance in the form of 23 ZUNR leaders was received on January 18, 1919, during a campaign of troops of the Hutsul Republic (National Defense) on Maramoroshsky Sigit, where it was defeated by the Romanian army. From April 1919, there was a permanent representation of the Ukrainian Central Council in Khust at the ZUNR in Stanislavov. In June 1919, the Hutsul Republic was liquidated by the Romanian army, and its representatives, together with S. Klochurak, were arrested in Brasov. In September 1919, the ZUNR Diplomatic Mission released the Hutsuls from prison and based on them a Hutsul hundred ZUNR, led by S. Klochurak, who participated in several ZUNR military operations, and after the defeat of the ZUNR, hundreds remained in Czechoslovakia.