Dr. Oleksander Tysovsky ( alternately Oleksandr Tysowskyj) (August 9, 1886 – March 29, 1968), pseudonym: "Drot", founded the Ukrainian Scouting organization

Plast The Plast National Scout Organization of Ukraine (), commonly called Ukrainian Plast or simply , is the largest Scouting organization in Ukraine. History First Era: 1911–1920 Plast was founded in Lviv (Lwów, Lemberg), Austro-Hungarian Ga ...

in 1911 and adapted the universal Scout principles to the needs and interests of Ukrainian youth. In 1944 he emigrated to

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. He became involved in Plast in exile, as well, and took part in a camp celebrating the 45th anniversary of Plast in ''Plastova Sich'' in

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in 1957. He died in Vienna 1968 and was buried in Vienna. He was reburied in the famous

Lychakivskiy Cemetery Lychakiv Cemetery (; ), officially State History and Culture Museum-Reserve "Lychakiv Cemetery" (), is a historic cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine. History Since its creation in 1787 as Łyczakowski Cemetery, it has been the main necropolis of the c ...

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in 2002.

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* Yurchuk, Deanna
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'', 2002-10-13, URL retrieved 2007-01-03. Scouting pioneers 1886 births 1968 deaths Ukrainian emigrants to Austria Scouting and Guiding in Ukraine Soviet emigrants to Austria Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria {{ukraine-bio-stub

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