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{{Short description|1918 battle of the Ukrainian–Soviet War}} {{Short description|1918 battle of the Ukrainian–Soviet War}}
⚫ {{Infobox military conflict
{{not to be confused with|Battles of Kruty (2022)}}
⚫ | conflict = Battle of Kruty
⚫ {{Infobox military conflict|
⚫ | partof = the ]
⚫ conflict = Battle of Kruty|
| image = ]
⚫ partof = the ] (1917–1921)|
image = ]| | caption = Scheme of the Battle of Kruty.
⚫ | date = January 29<ref name=encycl_ukr> at the ]</ref> or 30,<ref name=known_unknown/> 1918
caption = Scheme of the Battle of Kruty.|
⚫ | place = near Kruty, ] {{coord|51|4|46.32|N|32|9|33.48|E|scale:100000|display=inline,title}}
⚫ date = January 29<ref name=encycl_ukr> at the ]</ref> or 30,<ref name=known_unknown/> 1918|
| result = Strategic ] victory
⚫ place = near Kruty, ] {{coord|51|4|46.32|N|32|9|33.48|E|scale:100000|display=inline,title}}|
* Capture of ] by Soviet forces delayed
⚫ result = Strategic ] victory, capture of ] delayed and enabled the Ukrainian government to conclude the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CK%5CR%5CKrutyBattleof.htm |title = Kruty, Battle of}}</ref>
* Conclusion of the ]
|combatant1={{flagicon image|Flag of the Ukrainian State.svg}} ]
⚫ *Massacre of students who defended the station from the Bolshevik offensive<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CK%5CR%5CKrutyBattleof.htm |title = Kruty, Battle of}}</ref>
|combatant2={{flagicon image|red flag.svg}} ]
|units1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Ukrainian State.svg}} The Kyiv ] auxiliary ] and the ] size element of ] | combatant1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Ukrainian State.svg}} ]
|units2 = {{flagicon image|Red Army flag.svg}} ]| | combatant2 = {{flagicon image|Socialist red flag.svg}} ]
| units1 = {{flagicon image|Flag of the Ukrainian State.svg}} The Kyiv ] auxiliary ] and the ] size element of ]
commander1 = D.Nosenko<ref name=known_unknown/><br>Averkiy Honcharenko|
| units2 = {{flagicon image|Red Army flag.svg}} ]|
commander2 = ]<br>]<ref name=known_unknown/><br>]<ref name=known_unknown/>|
| commander1 = {{interlanguage link|Averkii Honcharenko|uk|Goncharenko Averkiy Matviyovich}} ]
⚫ strength1 = 500 students <br> 2 ]s<ref name=known_unknown/> <br> ~100 cossacks|
strength2 = 1,000 men (strike force)<ref name=known_unknown/><br> 2,000+ men (reserves)<ref name=known_unknown/> <br> 2 ]s<ref name=known_unknown/> <br> artillery battery | commander2 = ]<br>]<ref name=known_unknown/><br>]<ref name=known_unknown/>
⚫ | strength1 = '''Total: 600 soldiers'''
---- ----
⚫ 500 students <br /> 2 ]s<ref name=known_unknown/> <br /> ~100 cossacks
⚫ '''Total: 6,000 soldiers'''|
| strength2 = '''Total: 6,000 soldiers'''<br />
⚫ casualties1 = less than 260<ref name=known_unknown/> <br> prisoners 36<ref name=known_unknown/> (later 28 executed<ref name=known_unknown/>)|
----
⚫ casualties2 = about 300<ref>Михайло Михайлик: День 29 січня 1918 року.&nbsp;— Львів, 1932 (Ukrainian)</ref>}}
1,000 men (strike force)<ref name=known_unknown/><br /> 2,000+ men (reserves)<ref name=known_unknown/> <br /> 2 ]s<ref name=known_unknown/> <br /> artillery battery
⚫ | casualties1 = Less than 260<ref name=known_unknown/> <br> 36 prisoners <ref name=known_unknown/> (28 later executed<ref name=known_unknown/>)
⚫ | casualties2 = Heavy, about 300<ref>Михайло Михайлик: День 29 січня 1918 року.&nbsp;— Львів, 1932 (Ukrainian)</ref>
}}
{{Campaignbox Ukrainian-Soviet War}} {{Campaignbox Ukrainian-Soviet War}}
{{History of Ukraine}} {{History of Ukraine}}


The '''Battle of Kruty''' ({{lang-uk|Бій під Крутами}}, {{lang|uk|Biy pid Krutamy}}) took place on January 29<ref name=encycl_ukr/> or 30,<ref name=known_unknown/> 1918 (in Soviet historiography January 29, 1918),<ref name=known_unknown/> near Kruty railway station (today the village of Pamiatne, ], ]), about {{convert|130|km|miles}} northeast of ], ], which at the time was part of ] of ]. The '''Battle of Kruty''' ({{langx|uk|Бій під Крутами|Bii pid Krutamy}}) took place on January 29<ref name="encycl_ukr" /> or 30,<ref name="known_unknown" /> 1918, <ref name="known_unknown" /> near ] railway station (today the village of Pamiatne, ], ]), about {{convert|130|km|miles}} northeast of ], ], which at the time was part of ] of ].


⚫ == Order of battle ==
==Overview==
⚫ ===Order of battle===
;Ukrainian forces (D. Nosenko)<ref name=known_unknown/> ;Ukrainian forces (D. Nosenko)<ref name=known_unknown/>
* 1st Student Company{{efn|group=1|The student company consisted of students from the ], the Ukrainian People's University and the 2nd Kyiv Gymnasium of St.Cyril and Methodius.}} (Sich Riflemen auxiliary kurin) - Petro Omelchenko<ref name=life_kruty>Tynchenko, Ya. ''''. ] (Istorychna Pravda). 28 January 2011</ref> (fatally wounded) (116 soldiers) was split into four platoons * 1st Student Company{{efn|group=1|The student company consisted of students from the ], the Ukrainian People's University and the 2nd Kyiv Gymnasium of St.Cyril and Methodius.}} (Sich Riflemen auxiliary kurin) — Petro Omelchenko<ref name=life_kruty>Tynchenko, Ya. ''''. ] (Istorychna Pravda). 28 January 2011</ref> (fatally wounded) (116 soldiers) was split into four platoons
* Cadet Corps of the ]{{efn|group=1|Former 1st Kyiv Konstantinovskoye Military School}} - Averkiy Honcharenko (~200 soldiers) * Cadet Corps of the ]{{efn|group=1|Former 1st Kyiv Konstantinovskoye Military School}} — Averkii Honcharenko (~200 soldiers)
* ] ] (80 soldiers) * ] ] (80 soldiers)
**Cavalry detachment **Cavalry detachment
* Made-up armed train (consisted of artillery gun on a ]) - S.Loshchenko * Ad hoc armed train (consisted of artillery gun on a ]) — S. Loshchenko
* Armored train - M.Yartsev (wounded), withdrew to ] * Armored train — M. Yartsev (wounded), withdrew to ]


;Russian forces (])<ref name=known_unknown>Kovalchuk, M. ''. ] (Historic Pravda). 29 January 2015 ( original source)]</ref> ;Russian forces (])<ref name="known_unknown">Kovalchuk, M. ''. ] (Historic Pravda). 29 January 2015 ( (original source)''</ref>
* 1st Revolutionary Army (] ]) - 1,500 * 1st Revolutionary Army (] ]) — 1,500
** Baltic sailors of ] ** Baltic sailors of ]
** 1st Petrograd Red Guards ** 1st Petrograd Red Guards
***1st battalion - Lifanov (wounded) ***1st battalion — Lifanov (wounded)
***2nd battalion - Vorobyov ***2nd battalion — Vorobyov
** 1st Moscow Red Guards - Ye.Lapidus ** 1st Moscow Red Guards — Ye. Lapidus
** Armored train No.2 ** Armored train No. 2
* 2nd Revolutionary Army (] ]) * 2nd Revolutionary Army (] ])
** 436th Novo-Ladoga Regiment ** 436th Novo-Ladoga Regiment
** 534th Novo-Kyiv Regiment ** 534th Novo-Kyiv Regiment
** detachment of Baltic sailors ** Detachment of Baltic sailors
** Lenin armored train ** Lenin armored train


===Brief description=== == The battle ==
As ] forces of about 4,000 men, commanded by ], advanced toward ], a small ] unit of 400 soldiers of the Bakhmach garrison (about 300<ref>{{cite book | title=Ukraine: A History | author=Subtelny, Orest | publisher=] | year=2000 | isbn=0-8020-8390-0 | page= | author-link=Orest Subtelny | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/ukrainehistory00subt_0/page/352 }} As ] forces of about 4,000 men, commanded by ], advanced toward ], a small ] unit of 400 soldiers of the Bakhmach garrison (about 300<ref>{{cite book | title=Ukraine: A History | author=Subtelny, Orest | publisher=] | year=2000 | isbn=0-8020-8390-0 | page= | author-link=Orest Subtelny | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/ukrainehistory00subt_0/page/352 }}
</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://historyua.narod.ru/ |title=History of Ukraine |accessdate=September 12, 2006 |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |date= |year= |format= |publisher= |pages= |language=Ukrainian }}</ref> of which were students), commanded initially by Captain F.Tymchenko, withdrew from ] to a small railroad station Kruty midway towards ]. The small unit consisted mainly of the Student Battalion (]) of ], a unit of the Khmelnytsky Cadet School, and a ] company. Just before the assault Tymchenko was replaced by D.Nosenko, while Tymchenko left for ] in attempt to recruit the locally quartered Shevchenko Regiment (800 soldiers) on the Ukrainian side.<ref name=known_unknown/> Nonetheless on January 30, 1918 the regiment sided with the Soviet regime, the news of which forced the Ukrainian garrison of Kruty hastily to withdraw.<ref name=known_unknown/> Over half of the 400 men were killed during the battle, which lasted up to five hours. In the Soviet historiography the battle is mistakenly dated on January 29, 1918<ref name=known_unknown/> and confused with the ] rail station skirmish (]).<ref name=known_unknown/> The Haidamaka Kish of ] (300 soldiers) that rushed to reinforce<ref name=known_unknown/> the Kruty garrison and was delayed<ref name=known_unknown/> due to the Darnytsia railworkers sabotage<ref name=known_unknown/> stopped in close vicinity (rail station Bobryk)<ref name=known_unknown/> and eventually turned back to Kyiv due to the ] that occurred on the same day. </ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://historyua.narod.ru/ |title=History of Ukraine |access-date=September 12, 2006 |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |date= |year= |format= |publisher= |pages= |language=Ukrainian }}</ref> of which were students), commanded initially by Captain F. Tymchenko, withdrew from ] to a small railroad station Kruty midway towards ]. The small unit consisted mainly of the Student Battalion (]) of ], a unit of the Khmelnytsky Cadet School, and a ] company.<ref name=known_unknown/>


Just before the assault Tymchenko was replaced by D. Nosenko. Tymchenko left for ] in attempt to recruit the locally quartered Shevchenko Regiment (800 soldiers) to the Ukrainian side.<ref name=known_unknown/> On January 30, 1918, the Shevchenko regiment sided with the Soviet regime, the news of which forced the Ukrainian garrison of Kruty hastily to withdraw.<ref name=known_unknown/> Over half of the 400 men were killed during the battle, which lasted up to five hours. In Soviet historiography, the battle is mistakenly dated on January 29, 1918<ref name=known_unknown/> and confused with the ] rail station skirmish (]).<ref name=known_unknown/>
===Aftermath===

⚫ Eighteen of the students were re-buried at ] in the centre of Kyiv after the return of the ] to the capital in March 1918. At the funeral the then ] ], ], called every one of the 400 students who fought in the battle, heroes. In addition, poet ] wrote "To the memory of the thirties" about the heroic death of the students.
The Haidamaka Kish of ] (300 soldiers) that rushed to reinforce<ref name=known_unknown/> the Kruty garrison and was delayed<ref name=known_unknown/> due to the Darnytsia railworkers sabotage<ref name=known_unknown/> and stopped in close vicinity at Bobryk railway station.<ref name=known_unknown/> They eventually turned back to Kyiv due to the ], which occurred on the same day.

⚫ Eighteen of the students were re-buried at ] in the centre of Kyiv after the return of the ] to the capital in March 1918. At the funeral the then ] ], ], called every one of the 400 students who fought in the battle, heroes. Poet ] wrote "To the memory of the thirties" about the heroic death of the students.


After the fall of the Ukrainian People's Republic the bodies of the students were moved to the ] in Kyiv. After the fall of the Ukrainian People's Republic the bodies of the students were moved to the ] in Kyiv.
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{{Blockquote|Near Kruty the Kyiv military cadets and students became the forerunners of the Ukrainian political nation. Having different ethnic roots, they as one fought for our Ukrainian State. As the founding of the Ukrainian People's Republic became the base of the Ukrainian statehood, so the heroism of the Kruty's warriors became the beginning and the symbol of liberating struggles of Ukrainians for the liberty in the past 20th century. {{Blockquote|Near Kruty the Kyiv military cadets and students became the forerunners of the Ukrainian political nation. Having different ethnic roots, they as one fought for our Ukrainian State. As the founding of the Ukrainian People's Republic became the base of the Ukrainian statehood, so the heroism of the Kruty's warriors became the beginning and the symbol of liberating struggles of Ukrainians for the liberty in the past 20th century.
|] ] at the 91st anniversary of the battle<ref>, ]</ref>}} |] ] at the 91st anniversary of the battle<ref>, ]</ref>}}
]

On 1 March 2022, the ] successfully defended the area around Kruty from a ] attack during the ], with the Russians losing nearly 200 men.<ref>, ] (2 March 2022)</ref> Before the fighting, Russian soldiers took photos at the Memorial to the Heroes of Kruty, then vandalized it. On 1 March 2022, the ] successfully defended the area around Kruty from a ] attack during the ], with the Russians losing nearly 200 men.<ref name="3418218battlekruty">, ] (2 March 2022)</ref> Before the fighting, Russian soldiers took photos near the Memorial to the Heroes of Kruty, and fired on it.<ref name="3418218battlekruty"/>


===Important personalities=== ===Important personalities===
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* Averkiy Honcharenko, in 1943 became one of the organizers of the ]<ref name=life_kruty/> of which he was appointed a commander in 1945 * Averkiy Honcharenko, in 1943 became one of the organizers of the ]<ref name=life_kruty/> of which he was appointed a commander in 1945
* Petro Franchuk, one of the members of SS Halychyna * Petro Franchuk, one of the members of SS Halychyna
* Yuri Voronoy, son of Ukrainian mathematician ], performed the first human kidney transplant in 1933<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dubenko |first1=Dmytro |title=Хірург Вороний, який вперше пересадив нирку людині: українізатор і учасник бою під Крутами |url=https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/blogs-53567008 |website=BBC News Україна |publisher=BBC |access-date=31 December 2023}}</ref>


===To the memory of the thirties=== ===To the memory of the thirties===
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==See also== ==See also==
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* {{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkPath=pages\K\R\KrutyBattleof.htm |title=Kruty, Battle of |accessdate=August 15, 2006 |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |date= |year= |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Ukraine |publisher= |pages= }} * {{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkPath=pages\K\R\KrutyBattleof.htm |title=Kruty, Battle of |access-date=August 15, 2006 |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |date= |year= |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Ukraine |publisher= |pages= }}
{{ZN-2|Soldatenko, Valeriy|«І справжні, не фальшиві фарби»? Kruty: an attempt of the historic interpretation"|January 28 - February 3|2006||}} {{ZN-2|]|«І справжні, не фальшиві фарби»? Kruty: an attempt of the historic interpretation"|January 28 - February 3|2006||}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.korrespondent.net/main/162425/ |title=The president opened a memorial to the Heroes of Kruty |accessdate=August 25, 2006 |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |date= |year= |format= |work=] |publisher= |pages= |language=Russian }} * {{cite web|url=http://www.korrespondent.net/main/162425/ |title=The president opened a memorial to the Heroes of Kruty |access-date=August 25, 2006 |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |date= |year= |format= |work=] |publisher= |pages= |language=Russian }}
* {{cite web|url=http://history.franko.lviv.ua/IIk_6.htm |script-title=uk:Крути |accessdate=February 16, 2007 |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |date= |year= |work=Sketch of the history of Ukraine |publisher= |pages= |language=Ukrainian }} * {{cite web |url=http://history.franko.lviv.ua/IIk_6.htm |script-title=uk:Крути |access-date=February 16, 2007 |author= |last= |first= |author-link= |date= |year= |work=Sketch of the history of Ukraine |publisher= |pages= |language=Ukrainian |archive-date=July 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721211615/http://history.franko.lviv.ua/IIk_6.htm |url-status=dead }}
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1918 battle of the Ukrainian–Soviet War
Battle of Kruty
Part of the Ukrainian–Soviet War

Scheme of the Battle of Kruty.
DateJanuary 29 or 30, 1918
Locationnear Kruty, Ukraine 51°4′46.32″N 32°9′33.48″E / 51.0795333°N 32.1593000°E / 51.0795333; 32.1593000
Result

Strategic Ukrainian victory

Belligerents
Ukrainian People's Republic Soviet Russia
Commanders and leaders
Averkii Honcharenko [uk] Symon Petliura Mikhail Muravyov
Pavel Yegorov
Reingold Berzin
Units involved
The Kyiv Cadet auxiliary kurin and the company size element of Free Cossacks Group of forces in battle with the counterrevolution in the South of Russia
Strength

Total: 600 soldiers

500 students
2 armored trains
~100 cossacks

Total: 6,000 soldiers

1,000 men (strike force)
2,000+ men (reserves)
2 armored trains
artillery battery
Casualties and losses
Less than 260
36 prisoners (28 later executed)		 Heavy, about 300
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The Battle of Kruty (Ukrainian: Бій під Крутами, romanized: Bii pid Krutamy) took place on January 29 or 30, 1918, near Kruty railway station (today the village of Pamiatne, Nizhyn Raion, Chernihiv Oblast), about 130 kilometres (81 miles) northeast of Kyiv, Ukraine, which at the time was part of Nizhyn Povit of Chernihiv Governorate.

Order of battle

Ukrainian forces (D. Nosenko)
  • 1st Student Company (Sich Riflemen auxiliary kurin) — Petro Omelchenko (fatally wounded) (116 soldiers) was split into four platoons
  • Cadet Corps of the 1st Ukrainian military school of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi — Averkii Honcharenko (~200 soldiers)
  • Hlukhiv Free Cossacks (80 soldiers)
    • Cavalry detachment
  • Ad hoc armed train (consisted of artillery gun on a flatcar) — S. Loshchenko
  • Armored train — M. Yartsev (wounded), withdrew to Nizhyn
Russian forces (Mikhail Muravyov)
  • 1st Revolutionary Army (Komdiv Pavel Yegorov) — 1,500
    • Baltic sailors of Remnyov
    • 1st Petrograd Red Guards
      • 1st battalion — Lifanov (wounded)
      • 2nd battalion — Vorobyov
    • 1st Moscow Red Guards — Ye. Lapidus
    • Armored train No. 2
  • 2nd Revolutionary Army (Komdiv Reingold Berzin)
    • 436th Novo-Ladoga Regiment
    • 534th Novo-Kyiv Regiment
    • Detachment of Baltic sailors
    • Lenin armored train

The battle

As Bolshevik forces of about 4,000 men, commanded by Mikhail Muravyov, advanced toward Kyiv, a small Ukrainian unit of 400 soldiers of the Bakhmach garrison (about 300 of which were students), commanded initially by Captain F. Tymchenko, withdrew from Bakhmach to a small railroad station Kruty midway towards Nizhyn. The small unit consisted mainly of the Student Battalion (Kurin) of Sich Riflemen, a unit of the Khmelnytsky Cadet School, and a Free Cossacks company.

Just before the assault Tymchenko was replaced by D. Nosenko. Tymchenko left for Nizhyn in attempt to recruit the locally quartered Shevchenko Regiment (800 soldiers) to the Ukrainian side. On January 30, 1918, the Shevchenko regiment sided with the Soviet regime, the news of which forced the Ukrainian garrison of Kruty hastily to withdraw. Over half of the 400 men were killed during the battle, which lasted up to five hours. In Soviet historiography, the battle is mistakenly dated on January 29, 1918 and confused with the Plysky rail station skirmish (uk:Плиски (станція)).

The Haidamaka Kish of Symon Petlyura (300 soldiers) that rushed to reinforce the Kruty garrison and was delayed due to the Darnytsia railworkers sabotage and stopped in close vicinity at Bobryk railway station. They eventually turned back to Kyiv due to the Bolshevik Arsenal Uprising, which occurred on the same day.

Eighteen of the students were re-buried at Askold's Grave in the centre of Kyiv after the return of the Tsentralna Rada to the capital in March 1918. At the funeral the then President of the Ukrainian People's Republic, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, called every one of the 400 students who fought in the battle, heroes. Poet Pavlo Tychyna wrote "To the memory of the thirties" about the heroic death of the students.

After the fall of the Ukrainian People's Republic the bodies of the students were moved to the Lukyanivske Cemetery in Kyiv.

Ukrainian legacy

The true story of the battle was hidden by the Soviet Government. Only recently, a monument was set up to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kruty at Askold's Grave, and a commemorative hryvnia coin was minted. In 2006, the Kruty Heroes Monument was erected on the site of the historic battle. The battle is remembered each year on or around January 29.

Ukrainian youngsters lost their lives to stop the Bolshevist army of Russian Lieutenant General Nikolai Muravyov from advancing on Kyiv.

— Ex-President Viktor Yuschenko at the 91st anniversary of the battle describing the students

Young people, like Spartan soldiers, died for the sake of their motherland in a struggle against foreign aggressors, and it was an example of their sacrifice and selfless love for their native land. Every anniversary of the Heroes of Kruty is not only a day to honor those people who loved our motherland more than their lives. This is also another reminder to our contemporary politicians regarding their responsibility for the fate of their country and people.

— Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko describing the battle

Near Kruty the Kyiv military cadets and students became the forerunners of the Ukrainian political nation. Having different ethnic roots, they as one fought for our Ukrainian State. As the founding of the Ukrainian People's Republic became the base of the Ukrainian statehood, so the heroism of the Kruty's warriors became the beginning and the symbol of liberating struggles of Ukrainians for the liberty in the past 20th century.

— Ex-President Viktor Yuschenko at the 91st anniversary of the battle
Burial of Students who died during the Battle of Kruty (May 1918)

On 1 March 2022, the armed forces of Ukraine successfully defended the area around Kruty from a Russian army attack during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the Russians losing nearly 200 men. Before the fighting, Russian soldiers took photos near the Memorial to the Heroes of Kruty, and fired on it.

Important personalities

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  • Leonid Butkevych, the youngest soldier who was in the sixth grade
  • Yakiv Ryabokin-Rohoza-Rozanov
  • Volodymyr Shulhyn, a brother of the Ukrainian statesman Oleksander Shulhyn
  • Ivano Hrushetsky, later an Orthodox priest who eventually died in a Soviet prison in August 1940
  • Mytrofan Shvydun, later continued to fight on the "Shooter" and "Free Ukraine" armored trains and in 1941 organized the Lutsk Battalion of OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists)
  • Mykhailo Mykhailyk, later wrote a detailed memoir about the battle
  • Numerous former students of Kruty became the base of the officer corps of the legendary Black Zaporizhians Cavalry Regiment
  • Mykola Kryvopusk and Hnat Martynyuk in 1920-1921 served as personal bodyguards of Symon Petlyura, Martynyuk, after becoming a priest, perished in Volyn in 1943 under unknown circumstances
  • Serhiy Zakhvalsky, eventually became an officer in the Polish Army, however, he was renowned for imprisoning a whole company of the Red Army in 1920, while heading one of the cavalry squads of the Zaliznyak Cavalry Regiment
  • Averkiy Honcharenko, in 1943 became one of the organizers of the SS Halychyna of which he was appointed a commander in 1945
  • Petro Franchuk, one of the members of SS Halychyna
  • Yuri Voronoy, son of Ukrainian mathematician Georgy Voronoy, performed the first human kidney transplant in 1933

To the memory of the thirties

At the Askold Cemetery
They were buried,
The thirty martyrs-Ukrainians,
The glorious young...

At the Askold Cemetery
The Ukrainian bloom! —
By the bloody roadway
For us to follow into the world.

Onto whom has dared to rise
The betrayer's hand?
Sun is blooming, wind is playing
And the Dnieper-river...

Against whom has Cain committed?
O, Lord, punish them!
Over everything they loved
It was their loved land.

They died in the New Testament
With the glory of saints.
At the Askold Cemetery
They were buried.

— Pavlo Tychyna, 1918 (free translation)

Gallery

  • Photo, mistakenly taken as photo of burial of the student fighters of the battle, 1918 Photo, mistakenly taken as photo of burial of the student fighters of the battle, 1918
  • A hryvnia coin commemorating the Battle of Kruty A hryvnia coin commemorating the Battle of Kruty
  • Kruty monument on Askold's Grave Kruty monument on Askold's Grave

See also

Notes

  1. The student company consisted of students from the Kyiv University, the Ukrainian People's University and the 2nd Kyiv Gymnasium of St.Cyril and Methodius.
  2. Former 1st Kyiv Konstantinovskoye Military School

References

  1. ^ Battle of Kruty at the Encyclopedia of Ukraine
  2. ^ Kovalchuk, M. Battle of Kruty: known and known pages. Ukrayinska Pravda (Historic Pravda). 29 January 2015 ( (original source)
  3. "Kruty, Battle of".
  4. Михайло Михайлик: День 29 січня 1918 року. — Львів, 1932 (Ukrainian)
  5. ^ Tynchenko, Ya. Life after Kruty. How turned out the fate of participants of January battle. Ukrayinska Pravda (Istorychna Pravda). 28 January 2011
  6. Subtelny, Orest (2000). Ukraine: A History. University of Toronto Press. p. 352. ISBN 0-8020-8390-0.
  7. "History of Ukraine" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved September 12, 2006.
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