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Rally for a free Ukraine on Wenceslas Square, 24 February 2022.
Rally for a free Ukraine on Wenceslas Square, 24 February 2022. Aktron (Wikimedia Commons) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Prague stands with Ukraine: Wenceslas Square, 24 February 2022.
Prague stands with Ukraine: Wenceslas Square, 24 February 2022. Martin2035 · CC BY 3.0 · Source
Plast Czechia – Ukrainian scouting organisation

Organisation · 1921–2026

Plast Czechia – Ukrainian scouting organisation

Plast Czechia is a contemporary Ukrainian scouting organisation that reports activities in Prague, Brno, and Ostrava. Local scouting was revived in 2014, with a new Plast group established on 26 April 2015. Its work includes youth…

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New solidarity

Petr Pavel

Person · 1961

Petr Pavel

Petr Pavel (born 1 November 1961 in Planá) is the fourth President of the Czech Republic, a retired army general, former Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces (2012–2015) and Chair of the NATO Military Committee (2015–2018).…

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Occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops, 21 August 1968.
Occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops, 21 August 1968. František Dostál · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Augustyn Voloshyn

Person · 1874–1945

Augustyn Voloshyn

Augustyn Voloshyn (1874–1945) was a Greek Catholic priest, educator and political leader. He declared Carpatho-Ukraine independent on 14 March 1939 and was elected its president the following day. Following Hungarian occupation, he lived…

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1939–1990

War and post-war decades

Ludvík Svoboda

Person · 1895–1979

Ludvík Svoboda

The Czechoslovak general and later president Ludvík Svoboda (1895–1979) commanded the first Czechoslovak battalion in the USSR, which fought at the village of Sokolovo in the Kharkiv region in March 1943. In autumn 1943 the 1st…

Uzhhorod on the Uzh river in the 1920s, then part of Czechoslovakia.
Uzhhorod on the Uzh river in the 1920s, then part of Czechoslovakia. Автор невідомий / Unknown author · Public domain · Source
Poděbrady chateau, the town of the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy (1922–1935).
Poděbrady chateau, the town of the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy (1922–1935). Karel Liebscher · Public domain · Source
Andrij Jakovliv

Person · 1872–1955

Andrij Jakovliv

Andrii Yakovliv (1872–1955) was a Ukrainian legal historian and diplomat who settled in Prague in 1923. He joined the Ukrainian Free University as a docent in 1923 and became a professor in 1928 or 1929 (sources differ); he served two…

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1920–1938

Interwar Prague

Ivan Olbracht (Kamil Zeman)

Person · 1882–1952

Ivan Olbracht (Kamil Zeman)

The Czech writer Ivan Olbracht often stayed in Subcarpathian Rus in 1931–1936, settled in Koločava and wrote the reportage Země bez jména (1932), the novel Nikola Šuhaj loupežník (1933) and other works about the region. According to Czech…

Zinaida Mirná

Person · 1878–1950

Zinaida Mirná

Zinaida Mirna (1875/1878–1950) was a Ukrainian civic leader, member of the Central Rada and an organizer of the women's movement. Based in Prague from 1924, she led émigré assistance activities and helped safeguard Ukrainian museum…

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1914–1921

First World War

Jaroslav Hašek

Person · 1883–1923

Jaroslav Hašek

The Czech writer Jaroslav Hašek (1883–1923), author of The Good Soldier Švejk, was captured by the Russians at Chorupany near Dubno in Volhynia on 24 September 1915, joined the Czechoslovak units and lived and worked in Kyiv from 1916 to…

The National Museum in Prague, late 19th century, a centre of the Czech national revival.
The National Museum in Prague, late 19th century, a centre of the Czech national revival. Автор невідомий / Unknown author · Public domain · Source
Residence of the Bukovinian Metropolitans in Chernivtsi, built by the Czech architect Josef Hlávka (1864–1882).
Residence of the Bukovinian Metropolitans in Chernivtsi, built by the Czech architect Josef Hlávka (1864–1882). Сергій Криниця (Haidamac) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Ivan Franko

Person · 1856–1916

Ivan Franko

Ivan Franko (1856–1916) visited Prague in May 1891 for a gathering of progressive Slavic students. His surviving letters to Czech ethnographer František Řehoř document exchanges of books and scholarly periodicals, as well as cooperation on…

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National revival

Josef Hlávka

Person · 1831–1908

Josef Hlávka

Josef Hlávka (1831–1908) was a Czech architect, builder and patron whose design shaped the Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans in Chernivtsi. Constructed between 1864 and 1882, the ensemble now belongs to Chernivtsi…

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