“VOLYN TRACE” IN THE BIOGRAPHY OF YURIY LYPA

Abstract

The article deals with the presence of Volyn in the life path of the Ukrainian public and political figure, writer, doctor Yuriy Lypa (1900–1944) and the presence of volynians in his entourage. The emergence of new biographical facts due to local research complements, clarifies, concretizes, and diversifies the image of the person being studied, which includes characteristics of the environment, relationships, mutual influences, and interaction with it. Yuriy Lypa’s connection with Volyn and the people of Volyn has never been the subject of study, so the purpose is to investigate this connection: to establish the reasons for trips, the circumstances of acquaintance and the development of mutual relations with the volynians. The sources of the research are Yu. Lypa’s epistolary (1920s–1930s, in particular correspondence with M. Dontsova, N. Livytska-Kholodna, A. Zhuk), reviews by Yu. Lypa (“Conversation with Emptiness” to the article by U. Samchuk, “A moment with the master” to the collection of Y. Kosach), memoirs of contemporaries (U. Samchuk “Yuriy Lypa. Poet and doctor”, “On a white horse”, “On a crow horse”; T. Bulba-Borovets “Army without a state”; R. Sochynskyi “Memories of Yuriy Lypa”), works of the first lypoznavtsi (Yu. Kosach “Organizer of Ukrainian feeling”, L. Bykovskyi “To the problems of the life and work of Yuri Lypa”). As a result of research, it was found that from the mid-1920s to the beginning of the 1930s Yu. Lypa often visited Volyn. Friend of M. and D. Dontsov was hosted as a talented writer and public figure by the Pidhirski and Pyrogovy families in Lyubytiv and Kovel. At various stages of his life, Y. Lypa was surrounded by famous volynians Y. Kosach, U. Samchuk, and T. Bulba-Borovets. Using examples from the chronicle of Yu. Lypa’s life, compiled by the author of the article on the basis of available sources, it was possible to show some peculiarities of communication, reveal new aspects of biographies, and supplement the images of the above-mentioned persons. Further research consists in studying the evolution of the actor’s relations with famous volynians and finding new names and contacts, such as establishing the identity of Mr. Novoselytskyi from Kovel. Yu. Lypa’s creative appeal to the Volyn region in poetry, prose, journalism also remained undiscovered; publications of his works and reviews in local magazines.