Ukraïnsʹki sichovi strilʹt︠s︡i

LC control no.	no 94031441
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Ukraïnsʹki sichovi strilʹt︠s︡i *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Heer. Ukraïnsʹki sichovi strilt︠s︡i Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Heer. Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Legion USS (Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Heer) Sichovi strilʹt︠s︡i Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Ukrainische Legion (Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Heer) Ukraïnsʹka halyt︠s︡ʹka armii︠a︡ . Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Ukraïnsʹka halyt︠s︡ʹka armii︠a︡ . Ukraïnsʹki sichovi strilt︠s︡i USS U.S.S. Ususy Українські січові стрільці
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. Old catalog heading: Ukraïnsʹki sichovi strilʹtsi
Found in	Ukraïnsʹki sichovi strilʹt︠s︡i, 1914-1920, 1991: p. 5 (USS) LC PreMARC file (hdg.: Ukraïnsʹki sichovi strilʹtsi; usage: Ukraïnsʹki sichovi strilt︠s︡i; USS; Ukrainische Legion) Makivka, 1951: t.p. (U.S.S.iv, USS-iv) Encyc. of Ukraine: v. 5, p. 434-435 (Ukrainian Sich Riflemen [Ukrainski sichovi striltsi, USS, Legion USS]; the only Ukrainian unit in the Austrian Army. Organized in Galicia in August 1914 at the initiative of the Supreme Ukrainian Council, it was supervised by the Ukrainian Combat Board. The first volunteers were members of the Ukrainian paramilitary organizations, such as Sich, Sokil, and Plast. In Sept. 1914 2,500 were accepted into the army and sent to Transcarpathia for training. After 2 weeks, individual USS companies were moved to the Russian front in the Carpathian Mountains. The USS was divided into ten companies, and placed under the operational control of the Austrian 55th Infantry Division, and employed tactically as battalions or companies of the 129th and 130th Austrian brigades. By 1916 the two remaining battalions were merged into the First Regiment of the USS, but by Sept. 1916 the Regiment had been reduced to one battalion. By Jan. 1919 the battalion was expanded into the First Brigade of the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA). When the UHA was reorganized into the Red Ukrainian Galician Army, the USS became the First Infantry Regiment. In April 1920 the regiment suffered heavy losses and was surrounded by the Polish Army. It was forced to capitulate on 2 May 1920. The Legion USS had lasted 5.5 years and was the first and most durable Ukrainian military formation during and after the First World War) Ukr. rad. ent︠s︡ykl.: v. 10, p. 211 (Sichovi strilʹt︠s︡i, USS, Ususy; a military unit formed in 1914 for Austro-Hungary, whose purpose was to further the cause of the Holovna ukraïnsʹka rada and the Uniate Church, in order to separate Ukraine from Russia, so that Ukraine could be a protectorate of Germany and its allies. The USS was part of the Austro-Hungarian Army. After Nov. 1918 separate units of the remaining USS were joined with the Ukraïnsʹka narodna armii︠a︡. They carried out punitive measures in Kiev in Dec. 1918. The USS were defeated by the Red Army in Spring of 1919)