Mykola Tomenko, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, declared that the authorities had neglected the 155th anniversary of birth of a prominent scholar Dmytro Yavornytskyi.
Visiting Dnipropetrovsk and Nikopol cities, M. Tomenko declared that it was ‘a disaster´ that officials in charge of the humanitarian sphere considered the Ukrainian history to be strange or obscure. He emphasised that the authorities neglected the person who researched and glorified the Cossacks period of the Ukrainian State. M. Tomenko reminded that it was Dmytro Yavornytskyi who founded the museum of regional ethnography in Zaporizhzhia, and headed the Regional Ethnography Department in Dnipropetrovsk. "He is considered as a Herodotus of the Ukrainian Cossacks", the Deputy Chairman declared.
M. Tomenko stressed that despite the total neglect of this day on the part of the authorities, he, together with the newly-elected Head of Nikopol Ruslan Tokar and the Director of Khortytsia National Reserve Maksym Ostapenko visited Nikopol and its regions, where 5 Cossack hosts were situated to discuss renovation of a new route to unite all the Cossack host in the territory of Ukraine.
"I have suggested broadening the scope of research, restoration and other investigations, developing a route to cover the territory of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, where Zaporizhska Sich was situated", the Deputy Chairman stressed.