Brodii, Andrii

Brodii, Andrii [Бродій, Андрій; Brodij, Andrij], b 2 July 1895 in the village of Kyviazhd, Transcarpathia, d 7 December 1946 in Uzhhorod. A leader of the Russophile and pro-Hungarian orientation in Transcarpathia and a teacher. Brodii was a co-founder in 1920 of the Autonomous Agriculturalist Union (AZS) (its head in 1933–9); publisher of the AZS newspaper, Russkii vestnik (1923–38); and AZS representative in the Czechoslovak parliament (1932–8). In October 1938 he was appointed prime minister of the autonomous government of Subcarpathian Ruthenia by the Czechoslovak government. Arrested in November for pro-Hungarian activities, he escaped to Budapest and fought against an autonomous Carpatho-Ukraine. From 1939 to 1944 he was a member of the Hungarian parliament and led efforts to obtain local autonomy for Transcarpathia. From 1940 to 1944 he published the weekly newspaper Russkoe slovo. He was arrested by the Soviet authorities in 1945 and executed for collaborating with the Hungarian regime.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]