Ukrainian Military Mobilization Resource in Eastern Galicia: Numerical, Age and National Composition (1918)

In the article, based on published statistical publications, the works of Polish and Ukrainian historians, the author aimed to find out the demographic opportunities of the Ukrainian ethnithity of Eastern Galicia to fill the WUNR Armed Forces with sufficient personnel. Based on this and the nature of the sources, the religious (national), age, gender composition of the population of the entire Halych region have been analyzed, which made it possible to approximate the number and share of Ukrainians in the total population of the region before the outbreak of the world war. The calculated figure was adjusted as of 1918 according to objective, in our opinion, data around the natural and mechanical movement of the population and the imperial military mobilization campaigns during the Great War, used in various historical studies. At the same time, Ukrainian physical losses in the fields, the number of the wounded and imprisoned were taken into account to better understand the male demographic potential that could be used during military construction. Thus, the maximum indication of the possible number of human resources (not taking into account the state of health) in the Galician army was established, which is important for understanding the process of creation of military forces of Ukrainians at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and at the beginning of its own state-building.