OPRYSHKY UPRISING LED BY OLEKSA DOVBUSH
The name 'opryshky' was given to the rebels that acted in Halychyna, Bukovyna and Transcarpathia starting from the 16th century.
The most outstanding leader of theirs was Oleksa Dovbush. In the first half of the 18th century his detachment fought in Kolomyia district. Later it attacked wealthy estates on the territory of modern Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regions as well as Bukovyna and Transcarpathia.
Oleksa was born in 1700 in a poor peasant family in the village of Pechenizhyn. Legends say that the boy could not walk until he was 6. His parents worked as hired labourers, so since his very childhood Dovbush saw all injustice in treating working people by the rich. The first references to the heroic struggle of Oleksa Dovbush's opryshky against land
