Milan Rastislav Štefánik was born 138 years ago

If we look at Štefánik's life in short, you can tell me that this statement is not a "complete impulse".

It is more than admirable what this little man from Košarice has proved. After all, the scientist and the astronomer have traveled almost worldwide. Despite his worse health, he went out to Mt. Blanc, traveled to Central Asia, made several expeditions to Africa to build his own observatory.

He observed the stars in Tahiti, where he realized his greatest achievements, which was also appreciated by the Academy of Sciences. But we do not all know that he was the French government's negotiator for the construction of a telegraph network and a system of weather stations in Ecuador and the Galapagos, for which he later received the Cross of the Legion of Honor. It is not everyone who knows that Štefánik is also attributed the fatherhood of the first Czechoslovakian law, thanks to his nude picture of Tahitanka, whose origins date back to 1910.

Rastislav was one of the big hearts of women. A separate and well-known chapter is Štefánik's accomplishments in the military and diplomacy, with which we can celebrate 100 years since the creation of the first sovereign state of the Czechs and Slovaks. This country, up to here an island of freedom and democracy in central and eastern Europe, can be a source of inspiration even today.

This confirms that Milan Rastislav Štefánik is one of the greatest personalities of our modern history.

How does it work 19659015] As in other cities, even in Banská Bystrica, the Štefánika's name is Strada, namely the waterfront near Hrone. We also remind him of small memorials in the form of sects found in Old Sasova and Rudlová. It is that of Stare Sasova who is unique and who, like one of the few, represents Štefánik without headgear, so typical of his contemporary imagery. The "Rudlovská" is located on Kpt street. Jaroslav, where the bust is associated with the monument of Rudlovcany fallen during the First World War

In the past, Banská Bystrica also housed a large statue of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, originally discovered in Komárno in 1930.

the regiment bearing the named Štefánik, but for the occupation in 1938, the statue was transferred to Banska Bystrica and installed on a massive pedestal under Urpín. Štefánik remained on the pedestal until the end of II. of World War, when they were brought back to Komarno and later "edified" by the famous Partizan.

Unfortunately, since then, only the memorial sites mentioned above have remained in our city. It is bad that in a regional town, in Banská Bystrica, where the tradition of Štefánik was recalled in the past by ski jumpboards bearing his name, such a personality can not be attributed to a dignified monument or a pious place that his history and heritage deserve. . " We do not need to build large sculptures or extend the crowd of silent cults.Maybe enough to create a space where we would know the personality of Milan Rastislav Štefánik and would inexorably find the inspiration, the relaxation and the strength not to look for impossibilities but ways to solve things … "19459020 19659017]