Ukraine 2009. Set of Circulated Coins "Stepan Bandera". Kyiv Mint. Original.

Description: Country: UkraineType: Set of coins from the anniversary series "Heroes of Ukraine"Mint: Coins were minted at the Kyiv Mint of the National Bank of UkraineYear: 2009Denominations: 1, 2, 5, 10, 25 and 50 KopiyokMetal: Stainless magnetic steel (1, 2 and 5 Kopiyok) and aluminum bronze (10, 25 and 50 Kopiyok)Postage Stamp of Ukrposhta: Denomination: 1 UAH; protection: microtext "V. Vasylenko", a duplicated facsimile of the signature glows in UV raysChairman of the NBU in 2009: Stelmakh Volodymyr SemenovychStepan Andriyovych Bandera (Ukrainian: Степан Андрійович Бандера) was born on 1 January 1909 in Staryi Uhryniv, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (officially Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, created after the first partition of Poland, now in West of Ukraine) to Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church priest Andriy Bandera (1882–1941) and Myroslava (1890–1921). Bandera had two younger brothers, Oleksandr, who would go on to earn a doctorate in political economy at the University of Rome and Vasyl who finished a degree in philosophy at the University of Lviv. Bandera grew up in a patriotic and religious household. He sang in a choir, played guitar and mandolin, enjoyed hiking, jogging, swimming, ice skating, basketball and chess. Stepan Bandera had met and associated himself with members of a variety of Ukrainian nationalist organizations throughout his schooling—from Plast, to the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Українська Визвольна Організація) and also the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN, formed in 1929 and in this period led by Yevhen Konovalets) (Ukrainian: Організація Українських Націоналістів). After graduating from a Ukrainian high school in 1927, where he was engaged in a number of youth organizations, Bandera planned to attend the Husbandry Academy in Czechoslovakia. In 1928, Bandera enrolled in the agronomy program at the Politechnika Lvivska in Lviv but never completed his studies due to his political activities and arrests. Bandera joined OUN in 1929, and quickly climbed through the ranks, becoming the chief propaganda officer in 1931, the second in command of OUN in Galicia in 1932–1933, and the head of the OUN national executive in Galicia in June 1933. Bandera prepared the 30 June 1941 Proclamation of Ukrainian Statehood in Lviv, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. The Germans disapproved the proclamation and for his refusal to rescind the decree, Bandera was arrested by the Gestapo. In January 1942, Bandera was transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp's special prison cell building (Zellenbau). After the war, Bandera settled with his family in West Germany, where he remained the leader of the OUN-B and worked with several anti-communist organizations such as the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations as well as with the US and British intelligence agencies. Fourteen years after the end of the war, Bandera was assassinated in 1959 by KGB agents in Munich, West Germany. On 22 January 2010, the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, awarded Bandera the posthumous title of Hero of Ukraine. In late 2018, the Lviv Oblast Council decided to declare the year of 2019 to be the year of Stepan Bandera. Two feature films have been made about Bandera, among them are Assassination: An October Murder in Munich (1995) and The Undefeated (2000), both directed by Oles Yanchuk, along with a number of documentary films. In 2021, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory under the authority of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, included Bandera, among other Ukrainian nationalist figures, in Virtual Necropolis, a project intended to commemorate historical figures important for Ukraine.

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