University in the context of scientific and cultural life of Poltava region

12.2.2024

On February 9, a presentation of the scientific collection “International Recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-33 as Genocide of the Ukrainian People” was held at the Poltava University of Economics and Trade.

The event brought together the scientific elite of Poltava region and all over Ukraine, of course, representatives of the administration and scientists of our University were present. The publication was presented by its compiler – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ambassador at Large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Candidate of Philological Sciences Igor Ostash. This is a unique publication, because the collection includes not just testimonies of witnesses to the Holodomor, but documents on the recognition of the Holodomor as an act of genocide of the Ukrainian people and the commemoration of the victims of the Holodomor, adopted by parliaments and local authorities of the world and international organizations. The collection also contains resolutions of the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and national parliaments on war crimes committed by the Russian Federation, crimes against humanity and crimes of genocide during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This is a unique publication, which was another step towards recognizing in the world the planned destruction of our people as a new form of genocide. Behind the scale of this tragedy stands on a par with the Holocaust and the forced resettlement of peoples.

Poltava region, according to historians and archivists, is one of the areas most affected by the Holodomor of 1932/33. The first monument in Ukraine to the victims of the Holodomor-genocide appeared on Poltava land. In 2023, at the initiative of residents of the Poltava territorial community, one of the streets was named after the Welsh journalist Garrett Jones, who was the first in the world to discover the terrible truth about hundreds of thousands of deaths from starvation in Ukraine in 1932/33.

The materials of the collection will be useful for the work of historians, specialists in international relations, students and everyone who studies the issue of the Holodomor of 1932/33 in Ukraine. The moderator of the event, a deputy of the Poltava Regional Council, Yanina Barybina, assured that the library of each institution of higher education in the region would receive this collection, scientific libraries, museums and archives would receive a copy of this book. The library of the state institution “Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University” has already received its copy with the gift signature of the compiler.

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