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On Friday, 18 September, in Lviv, Mariya Fedak was reburied — a Ukrainian public and charitable figure who was an active participant in the Galician women’s and educational movements. She was also the mother of Olha Konovalyets and Sofia Melnyk. This is reported on the site of the Lviv Regional State Administration.
— Today Mariya Fedak returned to Lviv, with which a large part of her family’s history was linked, and found her final resting place in Lychakiv Cemetery. She was buried in Plot No. 49 of Lychakiv Cemetery next to the grave of her husband, Stepan Fedak, the statement says.
The farewell began at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. After the memorial prayer, the procession went to the Lviv City Council, where a citywide ceremony honoring Mariya Fedak took place. The late figure’s final resting place became Lychakiv Cemetery. Her coffin was covered with the State Flag of Ukraine, and the military band performed the National Anthem.
The ceremony was attended by Mariya Fedak’s great-grandson, Yuriy Kuzmovychi, who has lived in the United States for many years, honorary head of the “Union of Ukrainian Women” Oreslava Khomyk, deputies Sviatoslav Sheremeta, Solomiya Rybotytska, Yuriy Mazur, and Zakhar Milyanyk, as well as representatives of the authorities and the public.
— Mariya Fedak was a private person: she took care of the household, raised eight children, and also helped our mother when she was small. At the same time, the Fedak family was one of the leading Galician and Lviv families in the first half of the 20th century. Unfortunately, due to political circumstances in 1944 year, everyone had to leave. One son went missing; the other children left Ukraine and started their own families in various countries around the world. Today there are eighteen of us, descendants of Mariya and Stepan Fedaks. We live in eight countries on five continents, and none of us live in Ukraine. That connection with Lviv was cut off. And we came here today, I think, to at least reattach one thread of that connection to dear Lviv for Mariya, — said Mariya Fedak’s great-grandson Yuriy Kuzmovychi.
Mariya Fedak died abroad and was buried in the Bonnevau Cemetery in Luxembourg. After many years, her remains were brought back to Ukraine and reburied in Lviv as part of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s initiative to return and honor prominent Ukrainians buried outside the country.
11 September, the head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration, Maksym Kozytskyi, reported that 18 September in Lviv there will be a reburial of Mariya Fedak’s remains — the mother of Sofia Fedak-Melnyk, who was married to Andriy Melnyk, head of the OUN in 1938-1964 years.
10 September, the first deputy chairman of the State Committee of Ukraine for Television and Radio Broadcasting Bohdan Chervak stated that in Luxembourg exhumation of Mariya Fedak’s ashes — the mother of Sofia Fedak-Melnyk, who was married to Andriy Melnyk, head of the OUN in 1938-1964 years — was carried out.
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