DMYTRO VITOVSKY

'Dmytro Vitovsky' () (b. 8 November 1887 in Medukha, Galicia; d. 8 July 1919, Silesia, Germany) was a Ukrainian political and military leader.
He was one of the leaders of Galician student youth and a fighter for the Ukrainian university in Lviv. He became a member of the Ukrainian Radical Party and an active organizer of a number of Ukrainian "Sich" groups, which later became part of the regular Galician Army.
He started his active military career in 1914 participating in mountain battles in the Carpathians and was an ideologist of the Ukrainian military political thought. He became a colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army. He was among the founders of Striletsky Found and a published organ of the Ukrainian Sichovi Striltsi "The Ways"(Shlyahy). In 1916-1917 he was a Ukrainian military commissar in Volhynia and organized Ukrainian schools there. In 1918 he was among the organizers of the military uprising in Lviv. He headed the State secretary of military affairs in ZUNR. Later he became a diplomat, defending the interests of his country abroad. He was a member of the Western Ukrainian delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in May 1919. He perished in the aircraft crash during the flight from Paris to Kamianets-Podilskyi in 1919 and was buried in Berlin.

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Lviv Study. Handbook./Compiler group manager N.Vynnytska.-Lviv:AHIL,2003.- 52p. ISBN 966-7617-59-9