On October 11, the All-Ukrainian scientific conference with international participation dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the creation of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen was held at the Center for Innovative Educational Technologies “PNU-EcoSystem” of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. The Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University organized the event. Co-organizers were the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Military Administration, the Institute of History of Ukraine of the NAS of Ukraine, the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Organization of the National Union of Local Loreologists of Ukraine, and the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankivsk Region.
The event was attended by scientists, teachers, museum workers, graduate students, and students from various institutions, including the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, the Institute of Ukrainian History of the NAS of Ukraine, the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the NAS of Ukraine, the Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, the Ivan Franko Lviv National University, the Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University, the Western Ukrainian National University, the Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, the Ivano-Frankivsk Academy of Ivan Zolotousty, the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education, the Kolomyia Professional Pedagogical College, the Ivano-Frankivsk Museum of Local Lore, the Museum of the History of the City of Kolomyia, the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Historical and Educational Society “Memorial” named after Vasyl Stus, and others. In total, 60 people participated in the conference.
The conference included a plenary session and work in two sections: “Military-political and biographical aspects of the history of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen” and “Artistic dimensions of the history of the USS Legion, the culture of everyday life and memory of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen”.
During the conference, exhibitions of historical and local history works on the history of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen by the teaching staff of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University from the funds of the University’s Scientific Library and documentary materials on the history of the USS from the funds of the State Archives of Ivano-Frankivsk Region were presented.