Stepan Shukhevych 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

Lviv

Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...

, and then the Faculty of Law at the Lviv University

Lviv University

The Lviv University or officially the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv is the oldest continuously operating university in Ukraine...

. With the commencement of World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 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

Ukrainian Galician Army

Ukrainian Galician Army , was the Ukrainian military of the West Ukrainian National Republic during and after the Polish-Ukrainian War. -Military equipment:...

 (UHA). Commandant of Odessa

Odessa

Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .The predecessor of Odessa, a small Tatar settlement,...

 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 WWII 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

Roman Shukhevych

Roman Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian politician and military leader, the general of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.-Childhood:Roman Taras Yosypovych Shukhevych was born in the city of Krakovets, Jaworow powiat, in Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria which is located today between Lviv and...

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Sources

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