Stepan Shukhevych

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Stepan Shukhevych (born 1877 in Ukraine, died in 1945 in Amberg, Germany) was the son of a priest. He completed school at the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv, and then the Faculty of Law at the Lviv University. With the commencement of World War I he took part in the formation of the Ukrainian Riflemens Corps USS. From 1914-16 he had a number of commands in the Legion and then in the Ukrainian Galician Army UHA. Commandant of Odessa in 1918. After the war he returned to his legal practice. From 1921-1925 he was a professor of criminal law at the Lviv University, and took the cases in defense of Ukrainians who were arrested and charged by the Polish government in anti-Polish activities. One of the organizers of the "Chervona kalyna" publishing house, publishing meterials about the history of the civil war in Ukraine. At the commencement of the WWII he moved to Crakow where he continued his legal practice. Author of a number of memoirs about the history of the anti-polish movement in Galicia. Father of Roman Shukhevych.

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• (In Russian) Chuyev, Sergei - Ukrainskyj Legion - Moscow, 2006