Ivan Blavatskyi

[2][3] In 1920, together with like-minded people, he initiated the construction of the first symbolic grave in Galicia[7] in Tovstenke, Chortkiv Raion, in memory of those who died in World War I.

In July 1941, in honor of the fallen, he initiated the filling of the grave of the Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine in Opryshivtsi.

[2][3] In 1944, together with his family, he moved to Western Europe, where he was a parish priest in the cities of Flintsbach (1946-1948)[1] and Rosenheim (1948-1949).

He is buried at St. Mary Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery in the suburb of Fox Chase, Philadelphia.

[2][3] In 2021, at the initiative of local historian Yukhym Makoterskyi, a memorial plaque to Ivan Blavatskyi was installed on the facade of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Tovstenke.