Stepan Shukhevych

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Stepan Shukhevych (born 1877 in Serafanivka, near Horodenka, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria - died in 1945 in Amberg, Germany) was a Ukrainian lawyer and military figure.

He was the son of a Greek Catholic 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 Sich Riflemen (USS) as an otaman (equivalent to a major). From 1914-16 he had a number of commands in the Legion (USS), and then (1918–1919) 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 World War II 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. Uncle of Roman Shukhevych.

Sources

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

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Name	Shukhevych, Stepan
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Short description	Ukrainian nationalist
Date of birth	1877
Place of birth
Date of death	1945
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