STATE CREATION OF THE UKRAINIAN FAR EASTERN REPUBLIC IN 1917-1922: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE NATIONAL AND CULTURAL AUTONOMY OF UKRAINIANS IN THE FAR EAST

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to clarify previously known but insufficiently researched facts, to discover new facts, to deepen the study of knowledge about the Green Wedge, to analyze the real state of the subject of research. Methodology. The methodology includes the analysis of the theoretical and source base with further generalization and formulation of relevant conclusions and recommendations. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the problem, the work uses a complex of general scientific, special legal, special historical and philosophical methods and approaches, as well as the principles of objectivity, historicism, systematicity and comprehensiveness. The results. In the course of the research, it was determined that on May 30, 1919, the Constitution of the National and Cultural Autonomy of Ukrainians in the Far East was approved at the II session of the Ukrainian Far Eastern Regional Council (with the participation of representatives of the Vladivostok, Mykyl-Usuriy, Iman, Khabarovsk, Svobodnen, Zabaikal and Manchurian Ukrainian District Councils) on May 30, 1919 , in which the structure, principles of formation and functioning, competence of national self-government bodies, as well as the issue of determining the civil-legal status of the Ukrainian population of the Far East are fixed. The Far Eastern Ukrainians sought to secure their freedom for an independent national and cultural life in their new homeland with the aim of preserving and freely developing these natural treasures, national identity and character. The main goal of the Ukrainian national movement in the Far East in 1917-1922 was the national self-determination of the Ukrainian population of the Far East in the form of national-territorial or national-cultural autonomy, the principles of which are contained in Article 6 of the Constitution of the National-Cultural Autonomy of Ukrainians in the Far East. Originality. In the course of the research, it was established that the research and coverage of the issue of the state formation of the Ukrainian people of the last century against the background of the events that took place since 2014, namely: the annexation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the military invasion of Eastern Ukraine, as well as the full-scale military invasion on February 24, 2022, are quite relevant to the modern sovereign and independent, democratic, social, legal state of Ukraine, which are examples of Russian expansionist ambitions and imperialist policies. As a result, today the Ukrainian people stand in defense of democratic values, the European path of development, territorial integrity and state sovereignty of Ukraine. One of the stages of state formation of the Ukrainian people is the formation of the Ukrainian Far Eastern Republic, which lasted from 1917 to 1922. Practical significance. The results of the study can be used by central, regional and local state authorities in the formation of diaspora policy while addressing cultural, linguistic, legal and educational needs, as well as in the development of programs for the historical development of the Ukrainian people in the environment of the Ukrainian diaspora and on the territory of modern Ukraine.