The Club of Ukrainian Studies "Spadshchyna"
Ukrainian cultural heritage and environmentalist non-governmental organisation
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The Club of Ukrainian Studies “Spadshchyna” (Ukrainian: Українознавчий клуб “Спадщина”, lit. 'heritage') was a Ukrainian non-governmental organisation. The main aims of the organisation — protection of Ukrainian cultural heritage, promoting Ukrainian as a state language and opposition to further shearing the nuclear power stations in Ukraine. “Spadshchyna” and its members took an active part in establishing the People's Movement of Ukraine, the popular front organisation advocating for Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union.
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Українознавчий клуб «Спадщина» | |
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| Abbreviation | Spadshchyna |
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| Successor | club "Naukova Spadschina" / клуб «Наукова спадщина» |
| Formation | December 1987 |
| Established | January 27, 1988 |
| Founders | Viktor Kulynych, Ivan Zaiets, Leonid Dobriansky, Oleksa Nehrebets'kyi et al. |
| Founded at | 45a Volodymyrska Street, Kyiv |
| Dissolved | October 2012 |
| Purpose | cultural preservation, promotion of Ukrainian as a state language, environmentalism |
History
The Club of Ukrainian Studies “Spadshchyna “ was founded on the basis of the Kyiv's House of Scientists Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. It was Ivan Zaiets, Victor Kulynych, Leonid Dobrianskyi, Yaroslav Fedoryn, Leonid Dmytrenko, Olexander Mosijuk and other young scientists of Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, who were inspired by Ukrainian Culturological Club to establish their own Club - “Spadshchyna”[1].
13 November 1988 The Club of Ukrainian Studies “Spadshchyna” was an organiser of a huge public event in Kyiv - “The Ecology and We” - a meeting of more than ten thousand people held under the ecological slogans. At the same time their speakers, for example, Ukrainian writers Dmytro Pavlychko and Ludmyla Taranenko, announced that Ukraine needed the new organisation - People's Movement of Ukraine. Many of “Spadshchyna's” members took an active part in establishing the People's Movement of Ukraine, as managers or executive staff[1][2].
The Club “Spadshchyna” also co-hosted an important event with the Institute of History of the Ukrainian SSR on 5 December 1988 honouring prominent Ukrainian historian and politician Mykhailo Hrushevsky. Around 800 people attended the event, filling the hall of the Section of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences (Kirov Street, 4).[3]
During the 1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election one of the Club members Ivan Zaiets was elected as a deputy to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR. Olexander Mosijuk was elected to the Kyiv City Council, Igor Shcherbak became a deputy to Kyiv's Pechersk Raion Council[4]. Olexander Mosijuk as a vice-chair of Kyiv City Council officially lifted 24 July 1990 blue-yellow Ukrainian flag over the Kyiv City[5].
The Club of Ukrainian Studies “Spadshchyna” called for the restoration of Ukrainian as the state language and of Ukrainian national symbols as the symbols of the country, for the revival of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, for creating the Ivan Honchar Museum[4].