On the border between the Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathian oblasts, at the foot of Hoverla Mountain, a military necropolis was consecrated and the perished soldiers of WWI were remembered with a minute of silence.
On the border between the Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathian oblasts, at the foot of Hoverla Mountain, a military necropolis was consecrated and the perished soldiers of WWI were remembered with a minute of silence. The consecration of 41 graves and 3 collective graves was administered by Archbishop Augustine (Markevych) of Lviv and Halych of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) and a priest of the Roman Catholic Church, Fr. Kazymyr Halimurka, under the flags of Austria, Hungary, Ukraine, and Russia.
The military necroplis was cleaned and repaired by volunteers from Lviv, Kyiv, Sumy, Uzhhorod, Tula, and Moscow fromAugust 22 to 28. According to the head of the Federation of Scouts “Galician Rus,” Kyrylo Arbatov, the humanitarian action “Remember, Revive, Preserve” was substantially supported by the charitable foundation of a deputy of the Russian Duma (Parliament), Anatolii Lisitsyn, who personally participated in the cleaning of the graves of the Russian soldiers. According to Zaxid.net, he laid a garland to the collective grave of the Russian soldiers on behalf of the Russian General Consulate in Lviv.
“The 100th anniversary of WWI in 2014 is close, but there are a lot of neglected graves of that time in the territory of Europe. I am sure that it is a matter of honor of our two young states to reestablish the good memory of the fighters who were faithful to their oath, honor and duty,” stressed Lisitsyn. According to him, he already approached Russia’s president with a request to adopt a program at the state level to put in order as much as possible the burial places and battlefields of WWI by the 100th anniversary.