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separate administrations. The departments of
SRC were established to deal with education,
finances, peasant issues, etc. The centres of
SRC included about 50 local councils and 12
district councils. The Council started to form
units of national guard. Austrians refused to
meet political demands of SRC and restricted
its activity to cultural and educational
functions.
May, 15 The first issue of the first Ukrainian
1848 newspaper “Galician Dawn” (“Zorya
Halytska”) was published. In Lviv. A.
Pavenetsky became its editor. The first issue
included appeal of SRC, claiming that
Ukrainians of Halychyna and Dnieper
Ukraine have to be regarded as one nation.
May, 23 Under the pressure of the Central Council of
1848 People a part of Ukrainian nobility and
intellectuals, who did not want to isolate from
higher social classes, formed their own
organization – the Rus Council. It put it as a
goal to place Ukrainian movement under the
Polish one and stood for independence of
Poland under Habsburgs’ rule. The began to
publish newspaper “Diary of Rus” with I.
Vahylevych as its editor. Prince Lev Sapiha
headed the Council.
June 1848 The Slavic Congress in Prague. The
members of the Supreme Rus Council, the
Central Council of the People and the Rus
Council were the representatives of
Halychyna. The congress tried to reconcile
those three national organizations of

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