saw this in a welsh grave yard (as you do) and wondered if it told anything of the story of why it was there between all the Jones, Davies and williams’s

Don’t know, but whoever it was I hope they were hygienically burried – you never know with these foreign types if they were shot, diseased or anything else.

Take a photo to your nearest Eastern Orthodox Church. They may be able to help you.

It says ‘Memory forever – Here lies Andriy Zacharchiv Sosa’ Then I can’t read what comes after the dates, until the last line, which says ‘Everlasting memory’.

These are the words of the Panachyda – the service sung at the end of a Ukrainian or Russian Orthodox funeral, and on all occasions when the dead are remembered.

The man buried there will have been one of the many Ukrainians who came to Wales after WWII to work in the mines.

I am very curious: What cemetery is that?

PS: Wales has a long history in connection with Ukraine. It was a Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones, who bravely risked his own life to report on the forced famine (Holodomor) in 1932.

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Take a photo to your nearest Eastern Orthodox Church. They may be able to help you.

Excellent idea. Just stay more specifically Ukrainian. You never know who might greet you. 8)

Born 1901, died 19th of January 1948.

it’s Ukranian, he was called Andriy Zakarkiv Sosa, and he seems to have been from here –

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hradyzk

i don’t know what the first 2 lines or the last line says though. 🙂

You Ukrainian, Doris5000?

Hey Saxonrider, we should start a detective agency 😉

Cheers Guys it’s in Llanon, west Wales

You Ukrainian, Doris5000?

no, but i dated a russian speaker for a few years way back when… these days i can’t remember much of the language but i can still read the alphabet. Are you?

Fascinating!

Sort of. My grandparents came from there (Naznaya Chortiza) although they were ethnic Germans. My wife is also half Ukrainian.

I’ll just send it to the Russian babe I keep in an apartment in Moscow….

If you’re still in the area Rocketdog, get down to the Quay in Aberaeron and get yourself one of the honey ice creams they do…..very very fond memories of that stuff from the annual trips each year as a kid