Anniversaries for 2027

The CYM Global Executive has approved the following key anniversaries to be commemorated by CYM in 2027:

• 135th anniversary of the birth of Patriarch Josyf Slipyj;

• 120th anniversary of the birth of Roman Shukhevych, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA);

• 110th anniversary of the Ukrainian Revolution and the establishment of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR);

• 110th anniversary of the founding of the First Kyiv Gymnasium named after Taras Shevchenko;

• 90th anniversary of the martyrdom of Mykola Pavlushkov, founder of CYM;

• 80th anniversary of the beginning of Operation Vistula – the forced deportation of Ukrainians from Lemkivshchyna, Nadsiannia, Pidliashshia and Kholmshchyna;

• 5th anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine

In addition to these key anniversaries, the CYM Global Executive recommends incorporating the following anniversaries into educational activities throughout 2027.

CYM Anniversaries

• 80th anniversary of the First Congress of the Ukrainian Youth Association (CYM);

• 80th anniversary of the establishment of CYM in Belgium;

• 55th anniversary of the establishment of CYM in Galicia, Ukraine.

Ukrainian Statehood and Nation-Building

• 450th anniversary of the establishment of the Ostroh Printing House, founded by Ivan Fedorov on the initiative of, and with funding from, Prince Vasyl-Kostiantyn Ostrozkyi;

• 110th anniversary of the formation of the Sich Riflemen Battalion in Kyiv;

• 90th anniversary of the birth of Viacheslav Chornovil, Ukrainian politician, journalist and former political prisoner;

• 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Ukrainian World Congress (now the Ukrainian World Congress – UWC);

• 35th anniversary of the adoption of resolutions by the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine concerning the State Flag, National Anthem and State Coat of Arms of Ukraine.

Cultural and Scientific Anniversaries

• 200th anniversary of the birth of Leonid Hlibov, Ukrainian fabulist and writer;

• 190th anniversary of the publication of Rusalka Dnistrova, the first literary almanac published in Western Ukraine;

• 175th anniversary of the birth of Mykola Lysenko, renowned Ukrainian composer;

• 150th anniversary of the birth of Mykola Leontovych, composer of the world-famous Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells);

• 150th anniversary of the birth of Hnat Khotkevych, Ukrainian writer, historian, bandura player and composer;

• 140th anniversary of the birth of Les Kurbas, pioneering Ukrainian theatre director, actor, playwright, theatre theorist and journalist;

• 120th anniversary of the birth of Oleh Kandyba-Olzhych, Ukrainian writer, scholar and political activist;

• 110th anniversary of the birth of Tetiana Yablonska, Ukrainian artist;

• 100th anniversary of the birth of Oles Berdnyk, Ukrainian writer and dissident;

• 30th anniversary of the space flight of Leonid Kadenyuk, the first astronaut of independent Ukraine.

The National Executive of CYM GB recommends that all Oseredky take these anniversaries into consideration when planning their organisational and educational activities for 2027, as well as when preparing programmes for regional CYM rallies (Okruzhni Zdvyhy).