On May 6-7, the International Scientific Conference "The Western Region of Ukraine in the Second World War of 1939-1945" is being held at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn State University. Scholars from Ukraine, Poland, and the USA are participating in it, reported the Western Information Corporation's own correspondent.
The international scientific conference is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Its direct organizer is the Department of Modern History of VSU, headed by the department professor and head of the editorial and publishing group, Mykola Kucherepa. Co-organizers are the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Volyn Regional State Administration, the regional and city councils, the regional archive and the local history museum.
The plenary session was attended by regional and city leaders, the Consul General of Poland in Lutsk, Wojciech Gałązka, scholars, local historians, and journalists. Among the guests are Doctors of History Mykhailo and Nadiya Karkots (Minneapolis, USA), professors Ewa Orlof, Włodzimierz Bonusiak, Roman Wanda (Poland), domestic historians Oleksandr Lysenko, Volodymyr Serhiychuk, Yuriy Makar, and Lieutenant General Oleksandr Skipalskyi.
After the plenary session concludes, the conference work will continue in six sections, which will examine the entire range of the raised issues — from an analysis of the social condition of Western Ukraine on the eve of the Second World War all the way to the consequences of the war and historiography. Among other things, the sections will examine military operations and the occupation regime during the war years, as well as Resistance Movements in the Western region of Ukraine.
On May 7, the conference work will continue with discussion of the reports during a "round table," after which the concluding plenary session will take place. A sightseeing tour of the city of Lutsk is also planned for the conference participants.