PLACE OF LOCATION OF THE COOPERATIVE YEDNIST (UNITY) SHOP
The place where the building of the shop of the cooperative Yednist was located.
The Ukrainian cooperative movement in Galicia was actively developing since the second half of the 19th century. At Prosvita reading rooms, they began to create shpikhlers (public granaries, originated from the Polish word śpichlerż), agricultural and industrial unions, and shops where community members could buy cheap and quality goods.
The boom of the cooperative movement in the first half of the 20th century was primarily associated with the active support of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky. In his archpastoral message of 1904, he explicitly obliged priests to lead cooperative organizations locally. As a result, almost 1,500 different cooperatives operated in Galicia before the First World War.
In Urich, Prosvita members opened a shop and a granary near the reading room, and initiated the creation of the trade and industrial society Tustan-Zorya. The village credit union Raiffeisenka and the cooperative Yednist were established. An effective system of financial self-help to the Ukrainian population provided for the needy, financially supported the school, youth organizations, and the Prosvita reading room.
The building of the shop of the cooperative Yednist with an inn existed until the early 1990s in the village of Urich. Today, a new village shop building is located on the same site.