Lemki

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Lemki

an ethnographic group of Ukrainians living since olden times in the Carpathians, between the San and the Poprad rivers, and also west of the Uzh (Uz) River. As a result of the exchange of populations between Poland and the USSR after the formation of the Polish People’s Republic, some of the Lemki resettled in the plains areas of L’vov, Ternopol’, and Nikolaev oblasts.

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He also addresses tensions over pastoral care of the Lemki people, who were largely located in his diocese and who claim separate identity (neither Polish nor Ukrainian).

Nie mozna zdradzic Ewangelii Rozmowy z abp. Ignacym Tokarczukiem

From Poland came the resettled Ukrainians, or rather the Lemki, who settled in houses left by those Poles who were killed by the banderistas or died in Siberia.

Reflections on the Ukrainian Maidan: Ukrainian memory and identity

La publication, en 1974, du livre d'Andrzej Kwilecki, Lemki. Questions de la migration et de l'ssimilation, a grandement surpris les ethnologues et sociologues polonais.