PEDAGOGICAL AND PUBLIC WORK OF STEPAN HAIDUCHOK DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR

For the first time, based on documents from the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Lviv, the Central State Archive of Higher Authorities and Administration of Ukraine, the private archive of A. Sova, and the personal file of S. Haiduchok, a lecturer at the Lviv State Medical Institute; periodicals: «Krakivski Visti», «Visti», «Doroha»; memoirs of students of the Academic Gymnasium of Lviv, I. Lishchynskyi, A. Rudnytskyi, R.-B. Yaremkevych. Using previously inaccessible and little-known documents and materials, his activities during the years 1939–1945 have been reconstructed. S. Haiduchok worked in Lviv in various capacities: until 18 December 1939 as a physical education teacher at the Academic Gymnasium of Lviv, from 18 December 1939 to 30 June 1941 as a lecturer at the Lviv State Medical Institute, from 15 December 1939 to 13 April 1940 as a physical education methodologist at the Lviv City Methodological Office at the Lviv City Department of Public Education of the Ukrainian SSR, from 15 August to 1 November 1941 as a security officer for sports facilities in the Lviv Physical Education Department, from 6 November 1941 to 25 July 1944 as a rukhanka (physical education) teacher at the First State Gymnasium of Lviv with the Ukrainian language of instruction, and from 1 August 1944, he worked as a lecturer at the Lviv State Medical Institute. S. Haiduchok actively participated in the public life of Lviv and Galicia during the Nazi occupation, particularly as a member of the committee established to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the birth of the renowned educator, founder of Ukrainian physical education, public figure, and statesman I. Boberskyi. Compared to the 1920–1930s, Stepan Haiduchok significantly reduced his publishing activity. Keywords Stepan Haiduchok, Galicia, Lviv, pedagogical, socio-cultural and public activities, Ivan Boberskyi, body education, rukhanka, sports, Ukrainian antiquity, photography, archive.