music: group "Vertep"
performance: group "Vertep"
historical background: A peasant by birth and a teacher by profession. The First World War made him a career officer; the Ukrainian Revolution made him one of the first otamans of the Kholodnoyarsk Republic. Under Chuchupak's leadership, the Kholodnyj Yar Haidamaks fought for freedom against the Bolsheviks and the White Guards for two years. Vasyl Chuchupak valued freedom more than his life. Once surrounded, he saved his last bullet for himself...
1916 - Vasyl Chuchupak is mobilized to the tsarist army, graduates from military school and serves as an ensign.
1918 - residents of the village of Melnyky, the capital of the Kholodnoyarsk Republic, elect him otaman.
1919 - Haydamaks led by Chuchupak take part in a large uprising against the Bolsheviks.
February 19, 1920 - in the village of Kreseltsi, he is surrounded by the Bolsheviks and fights his last battle.
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