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Dnipropetrovsk volunteers help British soccer fans

Dnipropetrovsk — Dnipropetrovsk Mayor Ivan Kulichenko presented the young volunteers with certificates and souvenirs. These young people helped welcome foreign guests and soccer fans in their city for the recent Ukraine-England game. The work to create a corps of volunteers was started in Dnipropetrovsk as a part of Euro-2012 preparations.

The city volunteers center invited students majoring in English to help with welcoming the guests of the soccer event. There were so many students willing to help that the organizers had to conduct a test. As a result, 72 young people were selected. However, it was not all about their skills as future interpreters — they also have be able to manage non-standard situations. There were a lot of those on October 9 and 10 as volunteers worked at the airport, train station, and on the match day, on the main streets of the city.

The young volunteers could be recognized by the bright uniform they were wearing. They were passing out information booklets to the guests of the city. The booklets had the information about the dos and don’ts in public places, in particular at the stadium, the map of the central part of Dnipropetrovsk, useful phone numbers, and some interesting facts about the city in both English and Ukrainian.

The volunteers’ help was indeed useful to the guests of the city, especially foreigners. They were often asked to show the way to a hotel, and sometimes even to help make a choice of a meal at a restaurant. The volunteers helped a guest from London, Steven Jenson, who somehow lost his passport, to make a request to the police and fill out all the necessary documents; they even helped search for the lost document. The passport was found by the end of The Day in a food package on the territory of train car shed. Dnipropetrovsk police praised the volunteers’ efforts.

OUN members to be reinterred in Lviv

LVIV — The remains of four OUN members who fought for Ukraine’s independence in Germany in 1920s — General Mykola Kapustiansky, engineers Dmytro Andriivsky and Osyp Boidunyk, and doctor Yakov Makovetsky — have been transferred from Munich to Lviv, where they will be reinterred in the central part of the Honorable Burial Field No. 67 at Lychakiv Cemetery.

Ihor Ozhyivsky, head of the Domestic Policy Department at the Lviv Oblast State Administration (ODA), told The Day that this decision was adopted at a session of the interdepartmental commission created within the Lviv ODA. At the same time, the decision to allocate a lot at Lychakiv Cemetery was approved by a session of the City Council Executive Committee.

“The reinterment will take place on October 31 or November 1, depending on when we agree with the clergy of St. George’s Cathedral to conduct the requiem. We also intend to carry the ashes from St. George’s Cathedral to the cemetery across the city,” Ozhyivsky added. The remains of the Ukrainian nationalists were transferred from Munich to Lviv by the members of Germany-based Ukrainian NGOs.