To the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The Separate Presidential Brigade named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky operates as part of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces 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.

Museum employee Ivan Mitrofanovych Kobyzky was a soldier of the 1st Cossack regiment named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. He was born 1 January 1894 Dr.. in Krolevka in the family of a yak. He received his primary education in Novgorod-Siverskyi, graduated from Chernihiv Theological Seminary (1911), Faculty of History and Philology of the University of Warsaw (1915). As a student, he traveled through the Crimea on vacation, and published travel notes in the magazine "Vera and Life", які в 1915 Dr.. printed in a separate booklet.

Then there was the Konstantinov military school in Kyiv (1915) and machine gun courses of the officer infantry school (1916–1917) in Oranienbaum, where Ivan Kobyzkyi formed the first Ukrainian machine gun company "Maxim". Took part in revolutionary events in Petrograd, and in July 1917 Dr.. with his hundred went to the South-Western Front and there joined the 1st Ukrainian Cossack Regiment of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky. fought, fell ill with typhus in March 1918 Dr.. was demobilized. He graduated from Ukrainian studies courses in Kyiv.

Since August 1918 Dr.. in Chernihiv, he worked as a Ukrainian language teacher in the 1st boys' gymnasium, gave lectures for adults. On behalf of the Teachers' Union, of which he was the secretary, headed the Shevchenko department of the Museum of Ukrainian Antiquities named after. VV. Tarnovsky.

У жовтні 1919 Dr.. he was forcibly mobilized by Denikinians, that captured Chernihiv, and in March 1920 Dr.. was interned by the Poles. In the camps of I. Kobyzky conducted work on the separation of interned Ukrainians from Russians, managed Ukrainian educational and cultural institutions, taught at the Ukrainian plastun school.

With the liquidation of internment camps in Poland 18 December 1923 Dr.. moved to Prague, where did he move 29 preschoolers. Thus, the foundation of the Ukrainian gymnasium at the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute of M. Drahomanova, who worked in. Rzhevnytsia near Prague. І.М. Kobyzky studied at the institute's graduate school (1925), taught at the gymnasium, with 1930 Dr.. was its rector. Died 13 November 1933 р., buried at the Olšany Cemetery in Prague.

Scientific Secretary Lyudmila Linyuk