Ivan Mykhaylovych Lutsky (March 7, 1949, Bodnariv - May 16, 2014, Hungarians) is a Ukrainian law specialist. Doctor of Laws, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Canon Law, Metropolitan Protopresbyter. Honorary Academician of the Academy of Higher Education of Ukraine since 2010. Dissertation for the Doctor of Law Degree "Christian Doctrine as a Worldview Source of the Ukrainian State and Law", specialty 12.00.12 - Philosophy of Law.

He was born in Ivano-Frankivsk region. He graduated from the 11th grade of Snyatyn secondary school (1967). He studied theology at the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Theological Academy (1968-1974). He graduated from the Yaroslav the Wise Kharkiv National Law Academy and received his law degree (1998). He studied at the Western Exarchate Scholarship at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, after which he received his Ph.D.

Stepan Puushik - Ukrainian writer, literary critic, folklorist, journalist, public-cultural and political figure, candidate of philological sciences, professor of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian University.

He is the author of many poetry and prose collections, folklore records, books for children, literary and local lore, explorations about the Carpathian roots of T. Shevchenko "The Kobzar's glorious ancestor", research on "The Word about Igor's Regiment", about Slavic and Myulogian The Bush Book ”), the story of Vladimir Ivasyuk (“ Lightning strikes the highest trees ”). The original selected works were published in 6 volumes (7 books), in 7 separate collections records of folk tales, songs, Ukrainian toasts, and parables were published.

From his school years he recorded folklore and collected a unique (over 200 volumes) collection of various records, a small part of which was published by books: folk tales "The Magic Miner" (co-authored, 1971), "Fairy Tales of the Highlands" (1976), "The Golden Tower" (1983, vol. Record), "Silver Will" (1995). He edited and published a book of lyric songs, Laughing, Crying Nightingales (1989), to which he included his own records of folklore. Carpathian Songs (co-authored, 1972), Ukrainian Toasts (1997, 2002), and Proverbs (2009) were released.

On the stage of the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Musical Theater. I. Franko performed plays, plays "My Earth" (co-authored), "Crying Windows" (1996), "The Golden Tick" (1999), "I Walk on My Land" (2005).

Selected works of S. Pushik in 6 volumes, seven books are published during 2004-2012.

Stepan Pushik is the author of one of the largest handwritten diaries in the world. This diary has about 300 volumes, each with up to 200 pages.

The writer and folklorist did not disappear on the night of August 14, 2018 following a heart attack.

Born May 29, 1919 in the village. Dubivtsi of Halych (former Mariampolsk) district of Ivano-Frankivsk region in the family of peasants.

He received his elementary education in Dubivetska and later in Galicia, which he graduated in 1934. He worked in the household assisting his mother, having lost his father early (he died in 1928), who had returned from a World War I cripple while fighting in the Austrian army. He took an active part in the association "Prosvita", created by the rural intelligentsia and youth, joined the youth organization "Plast", was active in the newly created sports society "Sokil". In the village, through joint efforts, the villagers built a reading club, established a cooperative. Soon (1935) he was hired at a mechanic car repair shop in Stanislavov, which belonged to German settlers.

In August 1939, Vasyl entered the Agronomy School-Academy in Lviv (formerly attended by Stepan Bandera), which he had graduated from during the German occupation in 1942. He returns to his native land, where he works as a manager for a film factory in Dubovci, and then in the village of Kozino, which was located across the Dniester River. In these villages at that time there were Magyars in the German troops. In 1941, after the execution of his brothers, he joined the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, received the pseudo "Sapper" and worked actively in it.

Very soon, the Organization elects its sub-district leader (Mariampol district, to which 7 villages belonged). With the formation of armed resistance to the occupying power, Vasyl establishes the work of the OUN and the illegal supply of food, ammunition to the rebels, and later the newly formed UPA. In September 1943 his occupation was discovered by the occupiers and decided to execute him, but Eugene, a local resident of the village. The casino releases him from the cellar and he escapes from death.

After that, he goes underground and the OUN sends him first to Volyn in the UPA, and after a while, transfers to the valley school in the valley under the guidance of Paul, after which he is left in the gendarmerie, and a month later appointed to the service security. In October 1944, because of the betrayal of a tactical training instructor on the pseudo "Katso", a major of the Red Army, the management decided to bring the school to other areas in the mountains.

The exit had to go in two stages in two nights. On the first night the junior school was withdrawn, and a day later, on October 12, 1944, at the exit of the second part of the school, the fight was taken at night (after the end of the battle two remained alive).

Basil, covering the departure of hundreds, exploded on a mine, lost consciousness and was captured by the enemy. He was sent to a prison in Pereginsk, and in three days transferred to the Stanislavsky prison.

The Military Tribunal of the NKVD Forces From the Stanislavskaya Region 29. 12. 1944 sentenced to 20 years of hard labor and 5 years of defeat in the rights with confiscation of property.

After returning to Ukraine in 1955, Vasyl worked as an electrician. He married Anna, in 1958, who was married to pseudo - Natalka, who also served in the camps for 11 years and gave birth to two children.

In 1978, Vasyl together with his son Roman rescued the grave of Levko Bachynsky, a prominent politician of the Western Ukrainian People's Republic, who brought to his ears the whole of the Ivano-Frankivsk KGB. In 1996, the grave was again transferred to Memorial Square.

Vasyl Grivinsky died at the age of 89 on March 19, 2008 after a heart attack, buried in a city cemetery in the village. Chukalivka.

He served his sentence in the Gulag camps in Vorkuta, Norilsk and Tayshet.