ABOUT RUKH AND HIS FATHER
The article, based on a number of sources, showing some moments of history Ivan Drach participation in the struggle for Ukraine’s independence during the restructuring. It was Ivan Drach was the first to open stream sent on a course of national consciousness of independence. The aim of this study is the desire scientifically prove why Ivan Drach historians call «father» of the Movement. To this end, the author identifies seven major reasons. And thus have a decisive influence Rukh (People’s Movement of Ukraine) led by І. F. Drach on the political situation in the USSR of the late 1980s - early 1990s, which was a major factor in the independence of Ukraine. At the first national meeting of the Movement was elected head of his phrase «In Rukh my stop» Independence «became airborne, and at the same time - the mouthpiece of patriotic desires of all Ukrainian intelligentsia of the time. And in the second and third meetings in their annual report, especially the «movement and establishment of independent democratic Ukrainian state» Ivan Drach finally convinced the representatives of the People’s Movement to adamant course to achieve the independence of Ukraine. The period for the dominant role in the creation of the People’s Movement and of Drach, who led his first one and starting from the third nationwide meeting with Michael Goryn’ and Vyacheslav Chornovil, the author symbolically calls Ivano-Fedorivs’kyi.