Yurii Havryliuk

Lemkivshchyna, also known as Lemkovyna, Lemkovshchina or Lemkowszczyzna in Polish, is a scenic territory traditionally inhabited by Lemkos. This territory stretches from the Beskids (a traditional name for a series of Eastern European mountain ranges, in this case the Carpathian Mountains)...

Lviv in the mid-1930s. A young man is sitting at a writing desk, his pen dripping words inspired by fresh memories of his childhood: Bird cherry trees, like smoking candles, rise from the evening’s pious hand The Lemkos are returning from Eventide, walking pensively to their homes. My highland...

In the stories recounted by elderly residents of Pidliashia, who are at least 80 years old or sometimes close to 100, one can hear legends and tales that for centuries the populace maintained as a kind of defense against foreign encroachments on their culture. One of these living monuments, which...

Something happens, someone says something, and an opinion eventually takes shape. A year ago, during The Day’s roundtable devoted to the events in Pidliashia in 1917-21, chief editor Larysa Ivshyna asked, “Why didn’t we Ukrainians have our Pilsudski?” In 2007, the 80th anniversary of the series of...

This year the poet Ostap Lapski was awarded the Shevchenko Prize for his collections of poems In Search of Myself and On Both Sides of the Truth. He was not destined to receive it personally from President Viktor Yushchenko at the National Opera of Ukraine. Lapski celebrated the occasion in Warsaw...