Mykola Mykhailovych Bandusyak was a Ukrainian public and political figure. He was born in Yasinya, Rakhiv district. He studied at the Beregovo Gymnasium, Charles University in Prague. He was an active member of the Plast and Prosvita, and collected donations for the construction of the People’s House of the Prosvita Society in Uzhgorod. He was actively developing Carpathian Ukraine, was a member of the Ukrainian National Union. After the occupation of Carpathian Ukraine, he was a member of an underground Ukrainian nationalist organization, for which he was imprisoned in Kovner, and in Soviet times – in the Gulag.
After moving to Uzhgorod, he became one of the founders of the People’s Movement of Ukraine in Transcarpathian region (1989), the T. Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society (1990), the regional Prosvita Society. Mykola Bandusyak died on March 9, 2002 in Uzhgorod.
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