Oleksa Volianskyi

A bas-relief with a memorial plaque in honor of Father Oleksa Volianskyi on the facade of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Kryvorivnia, where he served from 1893 to 1923. Oleksa Mykolaiovych Volianskyi (; 7 October 1862 – 2 March 1947) was a Ukrainian priest, ethnographer, cultural and educational activist. Full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1905).

Biography Oleksa Volianskyi was born on 7 October 1862, in Zvyniach, now Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada in the Chortkiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast, to at. Mykola Volianskyi and Pavlina of Borovskyi's family.

Graduated from the Lviv Theological Seminary. He served in parishes in the town of Tovste (1887–1889, employee, now a village in Chortkiv Raion), Siret (1889–1893, administrator, now Romania), Kryvorivnia (1893–1923, now Verkhovyna Raion), and Sokolivka (since 1923, now Kosiv Raion).

Head of the Prosvita reading society in Kryvorivnia. It is known that at. Oleksa Volianskyi helped Volodymyr Shukhevych collect materials for a book about the Hutsul region. He had a large library and archive, which were burned by Russian officers during World War I. Hryhoriy Khomyshyn,

Honoring the memory Memorial plaques in honor of at. Oleksa Volianskyi were installed on the facades of churches in Kryvorivnia and Sokolivka.

On the occasion of the 155th anniversary of the birth of Oleksa Volianskyi: 2012 was proclaimed the "Year of Oleksa Volianskyi" in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast; At the initiative of the NGO Zelenyi Svit, a Carpathian yew tree was planted in honor of at. Volianskyi in Zvyniach, Chortkiv Raion, as well as linden trees in Kryvorivnia and Sokolivka.