From the history of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Bohdaniv regiment

The Separate Presidential Brigade named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky operates as part of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was formed in independent Ukraine 2 January 1992 Dr.. as the 1st regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine. The unit got its modern name 15 December 2017 Dr.. in honor of the 1st Ukrainian Cossack named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi regiment of the Ukrainian People's Republic. This decision restored the Ukrainian tradition of naming military formations after prominent Cossack hetmans, commanders, chieftains, etc., and the history of the continuity of the liberation struggles of the Ukrainian people for an independent state returned to posterity. The Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a good opportunity to remember history.

18 April 1917 Dr.. soldiers in Kyiv, who took part in the Ukrainian military holiday declared themselves the 1st Ukrainian regiment named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi (Bohdaniv regiment). At the beginning of May, the First All-Ukrainian Military Congress spoke in favor of the immediate declaration of the principle of national-territorial autonomy of Ukraine and the Ukrainization of the army.

The Bohdaniv regiment became the first Ukrainian unit of the Russian army. 25 In July, the regimental flag was consecrated on Sofia Maidan, and 26 In July, people from Bogdan were sent to the front of the First World War. And here, echelon, who moved, fired at Russian troops - cuirassiers and Don Cossacks, stationed in Kyiv. "Svoi" shot at their own from an ambush, died 20 Bohdani people, many were injured.

All conscious Ukrainians understood, that the planned action took place. Makar Trukhan, a peasant from the village. Derzhanivka (now - Nosiv Territorial Community of Nizhyn District), Cossack's father, who served in the regiment named after B. Khmelnytskyi, came to Kyiv to escort his son to the front and heard from him: “… run away father, because here the Donks and cuirassiers are in great hatred with us Ukrainians, so that there is no fight". Later, in a letter to I.L. Shraga M. Trukhan described the Kyiv events and his own thoughts on this matter: “… how can we now defend ourselves against foreign enemies, as our enemies kill us from around the corner? … thought, that Muscovites are not like that now, as they once were, but now i see, that Muscovites and readers of "Kievlyanina" (the newspaper is the organ of Russian nationalists) Ukrainians are worse enemies, than the Germans, and now it is necessary to immediately demand from the Central Government the autonomy of Ukraine and its Cossack army. I have two young sons at home, and I will send them to the defense of Ukraine, and I do not send to protect the enemies".

13 October 2020 Dr.. in the series "Armed formations of the Ukrainian revolution of 1917-1921" the postage stamp "Cossack of the 1st Ukrainian Cossack Regiment named after Bohdan Khmelnytskyi" was put into circulation. The stamp depicts a Cossack in uniform against the background of the Teacher's House, where the Ukrainian Central Rada met (damaged by "arrivals" of raschits in 2022 р.), and on the envelope of "First Day" the episode of the attack on the echelon with the Bohdani people was reproduced.

Scientific Secretary Lyudmila Linyuk