Mykola Kyzenko

Mykola Petrowytsch Kyzenko ( Ukrainian Микола Петрович Киценко ) (born December 14, 1921 in the village of Nyschnij Kurkulak , Dnipropetrovsk Oblast - since 1939, Zaporizhia Oblast ; † May 10, 1982 in Zaporizhia ) was a socialist, Soviet nationalist, Ukrainian nationalist . He was one of the initiators of the establishment of a Cossack memorial on the island of Khortytsia .

Kyzenko, who had already completed a pedagogical training before the Second World War, graduated from the party college of the Central Committee of the KPU as a journalist in 1954. Through his positions as chairman of the "Organization for the Protection of the Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Zaporozhian Oblast '" (1964–1973) and Deputy Chairman of the Zaporozhian Oblvykonkom (regional executive committee), he had enough influence to set up the Central Committee of the 1965 together with Stepan Markovych Kyrychenko To be able to induce the KPU to discuss the question of the proclamation of the island of Khortyzja as a sapovednik and the construction of a historical-cultural memorial.

He participated in the construction of the memorial and researched the history of the Cossacks . In 1967 he published the book Chortyzja w herojizi i lehendach (Chortyzja in heroic characters and legends) about the role of the island in the history of the Zaporozhian Cossack. In 1969 Zaporozhye v Buryach revoljuziji ( Zaporozhye in the storms of the revolution ) and in 1970 Khortytsia followed .

After the fall of the Ukrainian party leader, Petro Schelest , in 1972, dealing with Cossack issues came under suspicion of nationalism. The construction project on Khortytsia was initially stopped, later a local history museum, the Museum of the History of Zaporizhia , was built in place of the Cossack memorial .

By order of the KPU Obkom of March 20, 1973, the book Khortyzja w herojizi i Lehendach was removed from libraries and bookstores due to “serious methodological errors”. The day after, Kyzenko was dismissed as deputy chairman of the Oblvykonkom and initially deported to an insignificant post. He soon retired.

During his lifetime Kyzenko was honored with the Order of Friendship of Peoples , posthumously the "Society for the Protection of Monuments" made him an honorary member. In autumn 1995, a memorial plaque with his portrait was attached to the museum on Khortytsia, which had meanwhile returned to the originally planned subject. In 1991, the Sitsch publishing house again published Chortyzja w herojizi i lehendach .