Stepan Shukhevych (1 January 1877 – 6 June 1945) was a Ukrainian lawyer and military figure. Born in Serafanivka, near Horodenka,

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, he was the son of a Greek Catholic priest. He completed school at the Academic Gymnasium in

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, and then the Faculty of Law at the

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. With the commencement of

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, he took part in the formation of the

Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (german: Ukrainische Sitschower Schützen; uk, Українські cічові стрільці (УСС), translit=Ukraïnski sichovi stril’tsi (USS)) was a Ukrainian unit within the Austro-Hungarian Army du ...

(USS) as an

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(equivalent to a major). From 1914 to 1916 he had a number of commands in the Legion (USS), and then (1918–1919) in the

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(UHA). Commandant of

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in 1918. After the war he returned to his legal practice. From 1921 to 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. Shukhevych was one of the organizers of the "Chervona kalyna" publishing house, publishing materials about the history of the

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. At the commencement of World War II, he moved to

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, where he continued his legal practice until his death in

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. Author of a number of memoirs about the history of the anti-Polish movement in

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, he was the uncle of

Roman Shukhevych Roman-Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych ( uk, Рома́н-Тарас Йо́сипович Шухе́вич, also known by his pseudonym, Tur and Taras Chuprynka; 30 June 1907 – 5 March 1950), was a Ukrainian nationalist, one of the commanders of N ...

and nephew of Volodymyr Shukhevych.

Sources

* (In Russian) Chuyev, Sergei - Ukrainskyj Legion - Moscow, 2006 {{DEFAULTSORT:Shukhevych, Stepan 1877 births 1945 deaths People from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Ukrainian Eastern Catholics Ukrainian collaborators with Nazi Germany Ukrainian people of World War I Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Ukrainian people of the Polish–Ukrainian War Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Stepan Lawyers from Austria-Hungary