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Dariia Tsvek

Dariia Tsvek

Dariia Tsvek was born on October 10, 1909 in Ternopil region and lived for 95 years. Dariia inherited active attitude to life from her parents. They provided their children with good education, and paid special attention to the daughters` education: they were taught proper housekeeping, cooking, entertaining guests and respecting the customs. As a schoolgirl Dariia began to note the recipes she heard from her family. Her father, Iakiv Markiewicz, was an inspector of the Ministry of Treasure in Warsaw; he often took his daughter with him to grand receptions. Mother of Dariia Tsvek was the chairwoman of the Union of Ukrainians, and tried to educate her children socially active and intelligent. As a result, the daughter showed enthusiasm through her life - playing the flute. Dariia successfully played in symphony orchestras. After graduating from high school she entered the teaching seminar of Ukrainian Pedagogical Society (1923-1927, "the Native School") in Kolomyia. Later she worked as a teacher: more than 35 years she taught biology at school and worked at the Station of Young Naturalists. Dariia got married, and then had children. Dariia Tsvek lived with her husband, who was a philologist, for 47 years. Many family friends remember him to be a sensitive and sensible man, who appreciated his family most of all.

Stepan Koval

Stepan Koval

Stepan Koval (born on 01/03/1914 in Korchyn village, Radekhiv district of Lviv region. - 2001, Ivano-Frankivsk) – a cornet of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA) (from 08/31/1944). His pseudonyms were “Rubash,” “Rubashenko,” “Rubaschenko,” “Burlaka,” “Yurko,” “Yuriy.” He was a Kurin otaman of UIA.

He was born in the family of middle peasants. In 1930 he received a secondary education in the village school. Since 1930 he learned deaconing. Since 1933 Stepan became an active adherent of UNO. He had a talent for singing, participated in a choir and drama societies of “Prosvita”, conducted a choir. In 1936-1938 he served in artillery of the Polish Army. He was imprisoned there for a term of 5 years for “reading the Ukrainian Literature” and demonstration of “outrage of Ukrainian oppression”. In September 1939 Stepan Koval was released from the prison. Being rather afraid of the arrest by the new Soviet government he crossed illegally the territory of the General Governorship. By June 1941 he was in Hrubieszów County, Lublin Province (now - Poland). He lived in Zhuzhel village and Dolmativ town. Stepan Koval organized the paramilitary youth organizations of the “Sich” there, worked at the mill and in the food department.

Volodymyr Maniukh

Volodymyr Maniukh

Pseudonym - "Borys". Volodymyr Manyukh (ukrainian: Володимир Манюх) was born in 1921 in Yabluniv village of Galyckyi district, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

He graduated Stanislaviv high school and Lyceum of Natural Sciences. One year he worked as a teacher in his native village. In 1940 he entered the Lviv Medical Institute. In 1944 he interrupted his studies and joined the ranks of the Ukrainian Red Cross (URC) of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA). On behalf of the URC he organized a mobile hospital of the UIA in Strilyska Stari village. Then he moved to Stanislaviv where he was employed at the regional hospital. In 1945 he entered the Stanislaviv Medical Institute and worked at the Department of Comparative Anatomy. After graduating it with honors (1947) he worked as a researcher at the Department of Surgery.

Vasyl Pashnytskyi

Vasyl Pashnytskyi

He was born in 1903 in the village of Vovchyntsi (now within Ivano-Frankivsk city) in the family of a poor shoemaker. Having finished school he entered the Stanislaviv Ukrainian State Gymnasium. However, his studying was interrupted by the First World War. Like thousands of conscious young people from Galychyna, who willingly joined the ranks of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, fifteen-year-old Vasyl took up arms. As a member of the Ukrainian Galychyna Armed Forces he went through the hard way of the victories and defeats.

Having returned to Stanislaviv after the war, a young man decided to continue his studies and became a third-year-student of the Gymnasium, which, in fact, he had left to defend the freedom and independence of his native land. An 18-year-old boy was like an older brother among 13-year-old schoolchildren and he was really their brother, father and guardian. By that time his father was his only family and he could not provide any financial support to his son. Vasyl wore an old service uniform, hungered, but due to his excellent studying he could stay free in the student bursa. He earned a living by tutoring, but he spent a lot of money on buying books.

Myroslav Dumanskyi

Myroslav Dumanskyi

Myroslav Dumanskyi (Ukrainian: Миро́слав Іва́нович Дума́нський, June 17, 1929, Ivano-Frankivsk region - † April 1, 1996, Ivano-Frankivsk) is a Ukrainian football plater, a coach. A former halfback of Ivano-Frankivsk football club "Spartacus" and "Shakhtar" (Stalino). He began to play football in 1945.

He was the first Master of Sports of the USSR Football Cup in Ivano-Frankivsk region. He was honored with this sport title for the third place won by the National Team of the Ukrainian SSR during the football tournament of People`s Spartakiade of the USSR in 1956.