Obec Ruská Kajňa a prvá svetová vojna

Municipality of Ruská Kajňa and World War 1.

Autor: BURDA Matúš

BURDA, Matúš: Obec Ruská Kajňa a prvá svetová vojna

BURDA, Matúš: Municipality of Ruská Kajňa and World War 1.

Vojenská história, 24, 1, 2020, pp. 52-87.

In the Slovak military historiography focusing on the years from 1914 to 1918, we can only find a few papers dealing with the specifically oriented research focusing on the participation of men of the Austro-Hungarian Army from a particular municipality in the territory of contemporary Slovakia and the military operations in the particular locality. On the example of the municipality of Ruská Kajňa in the today’s district of Humenné, this study monitors the participation of men from this municipality on the battlefields of the World War, analyses the combat activity of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Army at the turn of 1914 and 1915 and also offers a brief view of the demographic development of the municipality until the end of the World War, surely influencing the development of Ruská Kajňa in Czechoslovakia after 1918. In spite of the fact that Ruská Kajňa was not a significant economical, military, culturalsocial, political or religious centre of the river Oľka valley in the Zemplín County, it was in this municipality’s surrounding where the strategic combat operations regarding an important crossroad in the direction of Medzilaborce and Stropkov took place, with the local residents having to suffer all the oppressions of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Army in their homes directly. After the frontline moved off back behind the Carpathian Passes, it was necessary to reconstruct the damaged homes and farm buildings, which was very challenging since the men from Ruská Kajňa were recruited to the Austro-Hungarian Army, fulfilling their military duty on the Eastern and Italian front.

Key words: Military History. Slovakia. World War 1. Ruská Kajňa. Zemplín, Austro-Hungarian Army, Battles in the Carpathians. Name list of the soldiers from Ruská Kajňa. Demographic development. Combat operations in the Ruská Kajňa neighbourhood – Humenská Oľka, Stropkovská Oľka

DOI: https://doi.org/10.69809/vojhist.2020.24.1.3

Ročník: 24 | Číslo: 1/2020 | Stránky: 52-87