100 Notable Alumni of Lviv Polytechnic National University

Denys Šmyhal

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1975-.. (age 50)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1997
Occupations: businesspersonpoliticiancivil servant
Biography: Denys Anatoliiovych Shmyhal is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who has served as the 18th and current prime minister of Ukraine since 2020. Before his appointment as prime minister, Shmyhal was the governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and an acting vice prime minister in the Honcharuk Government.

Gosha Kutsenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1967-.. (age 58)
Occupations: screenwriterfilm directorsingerpoetstage actor
Biography: Yuriy Georgiyevich Kutsenko, better known as Gosha Kutsenko (Russian: Гоша Куценко), is a Russian actor, producer, singer, poet, and screenwriter. In 2008, he joined the United Russia political party. Kutsenko has appeared in high-profile films such as Mama Don't Cry, Antikiller, Night Watch, Lubov-Morkov, and Echelon Conspiracy.

Władysław Sikorski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1881-1943 (aged 62)
Occupations: military personnelpolitician
Biography: Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski was a Polish military and political leader.

Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1895-1966 (aged 71)
Occupations: politicianevent ridermilitary officer
Biography: Generał Tadeusz Komorowski, better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (after one of his wartime code-names: Bór – "The Forest") was a Polish military leader. He was appointed commander in chief a day before the capitulation of the Warsaw Uprising and following World War II, 32nd Prime Minister of Poland, 3rd Polish government-in-exile in London.

Stanisław Ulam

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1909-1984 (aged 75)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1927-1933
Occupations: physicistuniversity teachermathematician
Biography: Stanisław Marcin Ulam was a Polish mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, discovered the concept of the cellular automaton, invented the Monte Carlo method of computation, and suggested nuclear pulse propulsion. In pure and applied mathematics, he proved a number of theorems and proposed several conjectures.

Yuriy Lutsenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1964-.. (age 61)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko is a Ukrainian politician (whose most recent post was Prosecutor General of Ukraine from 12 May 2016 until 29 August 2019), Ukrainian Interior Minister and member in the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Józef Beck

Born in: Poland
Years: 1894-1944 (aged 50)
Occupations: politiciandiplomatmilitary personnel
Biography: Józef Beck was a Polish statesman who served the Second Republic of Poland as a diplomat and military officer. A close associate of Józef Piłsudski, Beck is most famous for being Polish foreign minister in the 1930s and for largely setting Polish foreign policy.

Kazimierz Sosnkowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1885-1969 (aged 84)
Occupations: military personnelpolitician
Biography: General Kazimierz Sosnkowski OBE was a Polish independence fighter, general, diplomat, and architect.

Andriy Sadovyi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1968-.. (age 57)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1995
Occupations: entrepreneurpoliticianpublic figure
Biography: Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi is a Ukrainian politician and businessman who has served as the mayor of Lviv, the administrative centre of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, since 2006.

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1888-1974 (aged 86)
Occupations: engineerchemisteconomistuniversity teacherpolitician
Biography: Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski was a Polish politician and economist, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, government minister and manager of the Second Polish Republic.

Vitalii Skakun

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1996-2022 (aged 26)
Occupations: military personnelsapper
Biography: Vitalii Volodymyrovych Skakun was a Ukrainian marine combat engineer who was posthumously awarded the Order of the Gold Star. He sacrificed his life in the Russian invasion of Ukraine while blowing up a bridge in Henichesk while he was still on it to slow the advance of Russian troops during the Southern Ukraine campaign.

Victoria Amelina

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1986-2023 (aged 37)
Occupations: lyricistprogrammerwritertranslatorprose writer
Biography: Viktoriia Yuriyivna Amelina, later known as Victoria Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist and war crimes researcher. She was the author of two novels and a children's book, a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literary Award and a European Union Prize for Literature finalist.

Lilija Hrynevyč

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1965-.. (age 60)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Liliia Mykhailivna Hrynevych is a Ukrainian educator, politician and civil servant, a Member of the Parliaments of the 7th and 8th Convocation from December 2012 to April 2016. From April 2016 to August 2019 —the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine; the first woman-Minister of Education and Science in the period of the Ukrainian independence. She has a PhD in Education.

Volodymyr Omelyan

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1979-.. (age 46)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Omelyan is a Ukrainian diplomat and politician. He is a former Ukraine's infrastructure minister in the government of Volodymyr Groysman.

Kazimierz Bartel

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1882-1941 (aged 59)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1907
Occupations: politicianuniversity teachermathematician
Biography: Kazimierz Władysław Bartel was a Polish mathematician, freemason, scholar, diplomat and politician who served as 15th, 17th and 19th Prime Minister of Poland three times between 1926 and 1930 and the Senator of Poland from 1937 until the outbreak of World War II.

Bolesław Płotnicki

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1913-1988 (aged 75)
Occupations: actor
Biography: Bolesław Płotnicki was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1953 and 1983.

Tatiana Anodina

Born in: Russia
Years: 1939-.. (age 86)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1965
Occupations: university teacheraerospace engineerscientist
Biography: Tatiana Grigorievna Anodina. From 1991 to 2023, she headed of the Interstate Aviation Committee — the civil aviation oversight body in Russia and some other states of the former Soviet Union. A career aviation engineer, she has been leading the Committee since its foundation in 1991.

Jędrzej Moraczewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1870-1944 (aged 74)
Occupations: opinion journalistpoliticianrailway engineerwritertrade unionist
Biography: Jędrzej Edward Moraczewski was a Polish socialist politician who, loyal to Józef Piłsudski and viewed as acceptable by both left- and right-wing Polish political factions, served as the second Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic between November 1918 and January 1919. He had previously served as Minister of Communications. Subsequently, from 1925 to 1929, he served as Minister of Public Labour.

Vera Kamsha

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1962-.. (age 63)
Occupations: journalist
Biography: Vera Viktorovna Kamsha is a Russian author of high fantasy and a journalist.

Stepan Kubiv

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1962-.. (age 63)
Occupations: politicianbankereconomist
Biography: Stepan Ivanovych Kubiv is a Ukrainian politician who was a former First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and simultaneously Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine from April 2016 to August 2019. He is also a former acting chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.

Slava Stetsko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1920-2003 (aged 83)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Yaroslava Yosypivna Stetsko, also popularly known as Slava Stetsko, was a Ukrainian politician and a World War II veteran.

Iryna Lutsenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1966-.. (age 59)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: In 1988 studied applied mathematics
Occupations: politician
Biography: Iryna Stepanivna Lutsenko, is a Ukrainian politician, who had served as a Member of the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2019.

Yuriy Izdryk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1962-.. (age 63)
Occupations: translatorpoetjournalistlibrettist
Biography: Yuriy Romanovych Izdryk is a Ukrainian writer, poet and author of the conceptual magazine project Chetver, also known as Thursday.

Petro Franko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1890-1941 (aged 51)
Occupations: pedagogueteacherpoliticianwriteranthropologist
Biography: Petro Ivanovych Franko was a Ukrainian educator, pedagogue, writer, ethnographer, scientist, military leader, and politician. Franko was a co-founder of the Plast, a Ukrainian Scouting Organization, and a former member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

Simon Osiashvili

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1952-.. (age 73)
Occupations: lyricistsongwriterprogrammeractorengineer
Biography: Simon Abramovich Osiashvili is a Russian poet, singer, Honoured Artist of Russia (2002).

Valentin Gapontsev

Born in: Russia
Years: 1939-2021 (aged 82)
Occupations: physicist
Biography: Valentin P. Gapontsev was a Russian-American laser physicist, billionaire, and the founder, CEO, and chairman of IPG Photonics. At the time of his death, his net worth was estimated at US$2.3 billion.

Tadeusz Sendzimir

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1894-1989 (aged 95)
Occupations: inventorengineer
Biography: Tadeusz Sendzimir was a Polish engineer and inventor of international renown. He held 120 patents in mining and metallurgy, 73 of which were awarded to him in the United States.

Stefan Bryła

Born in: Poland
Years: 1886-1943 (aged 57)
Occupations: inventorpoliticianpedagoguearchitectcivil engineer
Biography: Stefan Władysław Bryła was a Polish construction engineer and welding pioneer. He designed and built the first welded road bridge in the world.

Dmytro Dobrodomov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1977-.. (age 48)
Occupations: journalistpolitician
Biography: Dmytro Yevhenovych Dobrodomov is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 115th electoral district from 2014 to 2019. He is the leader of the public movement "People's control". Dobrodomov was a presidential candidate in 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. He withdrew from the election on 7 March 2019 in favour of Anatoliy Hrytsenko.

Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1894-1986 (aged 92)
Occupations: military officer
Biography: Wilhelm Orlik-Rückemann was a Polish general, military commander and one of the pioneers of armoured warfare in Poland.

Diana Reiter

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1902-1943 (aged 41)
Occupations: architect
Biography: Diana Reiter, also known as Diana Reiterówna, was a Polish-Jewish architect. A graduate of Lviv Polytechnic, she was one of the first female architects in Kraków. In 1943, she was killed at the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp during the Holocaust.

Władysław Belina-Prażmowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1888-1938 (aged 50)
Occupations: politicianmilitary officer
Biography: Władysław Zygmunt Belina-Prażmowski, was a Polish cavalryman, colonel and politician.

Tadeusz Piskor

Born in: Poland
Years: 1889-1951 (aged 62)
Occupations: military officer
Biography: Tadeusz Ludwik Piskor was a Polish Army general.

Oleksandr Shlapak

Born in: Russia
Years: 1960-.. (age 65)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1982
Occupations: politicianeconomist
Biography: Oleksandr Vіtaliyovych Shlapak is a Ukrainian politician, bureaucrat, and former Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

Oleg Shupliak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1967-.. (age 58)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1991
Occupations: painter
Biography: Oleg Illich Shupliak is a Ukrainian artist living in Berezhany. Father of Vitalii Shupliak.

Myroslav Marynovych

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1949-.. (age 76)
Occupations: university teacherhuman rights activist
Biography: Myroslav Frankovych Marynovych is a Ukrainian educator, human rights activist, and former Soviet dissident, and longtime vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. The co-founder of Amnesty International Ukraine, Marynovych was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.

Ivan Levynskyi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1851-1919 (aged 68)
Occupations: pedagoguearchitectgeneral contractorentrepreneur
Biography: Ivan Ivanovich Levynskyi was a Ukrainian-German architect, teacher, businessman and public figure.

Oleh Kutsyn

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1965-2022 (aged 57)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1989
Occupations: warlordpoliticianpublic figure
Biography: Oleh Ivanovych Kutsyn was a Ukrainian public, political and military figure who was head of the "Legion of Freedom" of the Svoboda party. He was also commander of the 49th Infantry Battalion (commonly known as the Carpathian Sich Battalion), deputy head of the Tiachiv district state administration (2005–2006), and twice elected as a deputy of the Tiachiv City Council.

Volodymyr Melnyk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1952-.. (age 73)
Occupations: scientist
Biography: Volodymyr Petrovych Melnyk is a Ukrainian professor of philosophy currently serving as rector of the University of Lviv since 10 June 2014.

Mykola Riabchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1953-.. (age 72)
Occupations: opinion journalistjournalistpolitical scientistpoetwriter
Biography: Mykola Riabchuk is a Ukrainian public intellectual, journalist, political analyst, literary critic, translator and writer. Riabchuk is known for his analytical articles and essays on Ukrainian politics, national identity and analysis of Ukrainian history from postcolonial perspective. Married to Ukrainian poet Natalka Bilotserkivets.

Oleksiy Skrypnyk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1964-2022 (aged 58)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Oleksiy Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk was a Ukrainian politician. Appearing third on the party list of Self Reliance party, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. Formerly, he was the CEO of Eleks, resigning in November 2014. Skrypnyk did not return to parliament following the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Piotr Wilniewczyc

Born in: Russia
Years: 1887-1960 (aged 73)
Occupations: engineer
Biography: Piotr Wilniewczyc was a Polish engineer and arms designer. Among his most successful designs were the Vis-35 pistol, commonly known as the Radom for the arsenal in which it was produced, and the Mors submachine gun.

Jan Franciszek Czartoryski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1897-1944 (aged 47)
Occupations: priestarchitect
Biography: Prince Jan Franciszek Czartoryski or Blessed Michał was a Polish noble and a Dominican friar.

Sergey Obukhov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1958-.. (age 67)
Occupations: member of the State Dumapolitician
Biography: Sergei Pavlovich Obukhov is a Russian politician. The secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), he was a deputy of the 5th and 6th State Dumas in Moscow. In this capacity, he was also a member of the State Duma Committee for public associations and religious organizations. He returned to the 8th convocation of the State Duma in 2021.

Jan Sas Zubrzycki

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1860-1935 (aged 75)
Occupations: university teacherarchitecthistorianrestorer
Biography: Jan Sas Zubrzycki was a Polish architect known for his work in the neo-Gothic style and originator of the so-called "Vistula style". His most notable design was the grand Governor's Palace in Lviv (1876). He was elected a member of the Board of the Union of Polish Scientific Societies in 1920, as representative of the Society for Protecting Monuments of Art and Culture.

Tytus Maksymilian Huber

Born in: Poland
Years: 1872-1950 (aged 78)
Occupations: university teachermechanical engineerengineerscientist
Biography: Tytus Maksymilian Huber was a Polish mechanical engineer, educator, and scientist. He was a member of the pre-war Polish scientific foundation, Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego.

Leontii Voitovych

Born in: Russia
Years: 1951-2023 (aged 72)
Occupations: research fellowhistorian
Biography: Leontii Viktorovich Voitovych was a Ukrainian scientist-historian who held a Doctor of Science (Ukrainian: До́ктор нау́к) degree. He was a research fellow of the department of Middle Ages history at the Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) as well as an academic department director of history of Middle Ages and Byzantine studies in the University of Lviv.

Władysław Orlicz

Born in: Poland
Years: 1903-1990 (aged 87)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1920-1921
Occupations: mathematiciantopologist
Biography: Władysław Roman Orlicz was a Polish mathematician of Lwów School of Mathematics. His main interests were functional analysis and topology: Orlicz spaces are named after him.

Ihor Petrashko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1975-.. (age 50)
Occupations: politicianeconomistcivil servant
Biography: Ihor Rostyslavovych Petrashko is a Ukrainian economist who served as Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine. From 17 March 2020, until 18 May 2021, he was the Minister of Economic Development and Trade.

Mieczyslaw Norwid-Neugebauer

Born in: Poland
Years: 1884-1954 (aged 70)
Occupations: military personnel
Biography: Mieczysław Norwid-Neugebauer was a minister in the interwar Polish government, and a lieutenant general in the Polish Army.

Oleksii Kaida

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1971-.. (age 54)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Oleksii Petrovych Kaida is a Ukrainian politician from Svoboda who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 163rd electoral district from 2012 to 2014. Prior to his election, he was Chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Council from 2009 to 2012.

Wacław Szybalski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1921-2020 (aged 99)
Occupations: oncologistphysician
Biography: Wacław Szybalski was a Polish-American medical researcher, geneticist and professor of oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin–Madison Medical School.

Stefan Stec

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1889-1921 (aged 32)
Occupations: engineerflying acemilitary officer
Biography: Stefan Stanisław Stec was a Polish aviator and military pilot, one of the pioneers of Polish aviation. He is also credited as the originator of the Polish Air Force checkerboard.

Petro Pysarchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1955-.. (age 70)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Petro Ivanovych Pysarchuk is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2002 to 2012, first from Ukraine's 124th electoral district in Lviv Oblast and later from the proportional list of the Party of Regions.

Kmit Mykola

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1966-.. (age 59)
Occupations: economist
Biography: Mykola Ivanovych Kmit is a Ukrainian politician and the former head of the Lviv Oblast State Administration. He is a president of the Ukrainian football club FC Skala Stryi (originally from Morshyn).

Nikolay Olshansky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1939-.. (age 86)
Occupations: politicianmember of the State Dumastatesperson
Biography: Nikolay Mikhailovich Olshansky is a Russian politician who served as a senator from Voronezh Oblast from 2011 to 2013.

Michael Nudelman

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1938-2018 (aged 80)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Michael Nudelman was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah, Aliyah, the National Union, Yisrael Beiteinu and Kadima between 1996 and 2009.

Taras Voznyak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Occupations: translatorphilosopherwriterpublisherjournalist
Biography: Taras Voznyak is a Ukrainian culturologist, political scientist, editor-in-chief and founder of Independent Cultural Journal "Ї", director of the Lviv National Art Gallery, laureate of the Vasyl Stus Prize (2021).

Andriy Grechylo

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1963-.. (age 62)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1985
Occupations: public figurehistoriandesignerheraldist
Biography: Andrii Grechylo, is a Ukrainian historian, heraldist and vexillologist. During his career he has published several books and designed hundreds of coats of arms, flags, banners and seals for over 1000 different municipalities and institutions.

August Witkowski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1854-1913 (aged 59)
Occupations: politicianphysicistuniversity teacher
Biography: August Wiktor Witkowski was a Polish physicist, professor and rector of Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Włodzimierz Stożek

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1883-1941 (aged 58)
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Włodzimierz Stożek was a Polish mathematician of the Lwów School of Mathematics.

Jan Jagmin-Sadowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1895-1977 (aged 82)
Occupations: military officer
Biography: Jan Jagmin-Sadowski, was a general of the Polish Army, having served in World War I as a member of Józef Piłsudski's legions, as well as commanding Polish forces during the invasion of Poland in 1939.

Mieczysław Batsch

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1900-1977 (aged 77)
Occupations: mechanical engineerassociation football player
Biography: Mieczysław Józef Batsch a.k.a. Bacz was a Polish footballer who played as a forward. He represented Pogoń Lwów, Oldboye Lwów and the Poland national team.

Kazimierz Schally

Born in: Poland
Years: 1895-1967 (aged 72)
Occupations: military officer
Biography: Kazimierz Piotr Schally was a Polish army general. He served as Chief of the Cabinet of President Ignacy Mościcki.

Władysław Sadłowski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1869-1940 (aged 71)
Occupations: architect
Biography: Władysław Sadłowski was a Polish architect, a representative of historicism and Art Nouveau and a graduate of the Lwów Technical Academy.

Kazimierz Vetulani

Born in: Poland
Years: 1889-1941 (aged 52)
Occupations: engineer
Biography: Kazimierz Franciszek Vetulani was a Polish civil engineer, professor at the Lviv Polytechnic, member of the Polish Mathematical Society, author of several dozen papers in the fields of technology and mathematics, as well as in the field of musical scale theory.

Tadeusz Kuchar

Born in: Poland
Years: 1891-1966 (aged 75)
Occupations: association football playerassociation football managerengineerathletics competitor
Biography: Tadeusz Kuchar was a Polish athlete, footballer, swimmer, ice-skater, skier, sports official. Born into a sporting family, he was the brother of Wacław Kuchar.

Władysław Jarocki

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1879-1965 (aged 86)
Occupations: travelerpainterexploreruniversity teacher
Biography: Władysław Jarocki was a Polish explorer and painter born in Ukraine, then Austria-Hungary. He competed in the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Most of his artwork was concerned with the Polish Highlanders, the Gorals.

Andriy Kit

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1971-.. (age 54)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Andriy Bohdanovych Kit is a Ukrainian politician. He is a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 8th and 9th convocations.

Rehina Kharchenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1990-.. (age 35)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 2022
Occupations: politicianchinovniklawyerentrepreneur
Biography: Rehina Vladyslavivna Kharchenko is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer and jurist who is currently serving as mayor of Zaporizhzhia since 24 April 2024.

Franciszek Vetulani

Born in: Poland
Years: 1856-1921 (aged 65)
Occupations: engineer
Biography: Franciszek Ksawery Vetulani was a Polish engineer.

Stefan Bastyr

Born in: Poland
Years: 1890-1920 (aged 30)
Occupations: fighter pilotmilitary officer
Biography: Stefan Bastyr was a Polish aviator and military pilot, one of the pioneers of the Polish aviation. He is credited with the first military flight in the history of the Polish Air Force on 5 November 1918, almost a week before Poland officially regained her independence, at the opening stages of the Polish-Ukrainian War.

Aleksander Litwinowicz

Born in: Russia
Years: 1879-1948 (aged 69)
Occupations: mechanical engineermilitary officer
Biography: Aleksander Litwinowicz was a Polish general who was a member of Polish Independence Organizations before World War I and a member of the Polish Legions during the war. Litwinowicz was promoted to general in 1924. From 1936 to 1939 he was the Second Deputy Minister of War and Chief of Army Administration.

Lev Pidlisetskyi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1977-2021 (aged 44)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Lev Teofilovych Pidlisetskyi was a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur. He was a Member of Ukrainian Parliament of the 8th convocation, member of parliamentary faction Samopomich Union. Pidlisetskyi did not return to parliament following the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1906-1982 (aged 76)
Occupations: physicistchemist
Biography: Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski was a Polish chemist, physicist and mathematician. An institute in Wrocław, Poland called the Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research is named after him.

Hanna Bondar

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1975-.. (age 50)
Occupations: art historianarchitectcivil servantpolitician
Biography: Hanna Viacheslavivna Bondar is a Ukrainian architect and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 220th electoral district. Prior to her election, she was acting chief architect of Kyiv and director of the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of the Kyiv City State Administration from October 2015 to 4 April 2016.

Franciszek Misztal

Born in: Poland
Years: 1901-1980 (aged 79)
Occupations: engineerdesigner
Biography: Franciszek Misztal - Polish aircraft designer.

Emilian Czyrniański

Born in: Poland
Years: 1824-1888 (aged 64)
Occupations: politicianuniversity teacherchemist
Biography: Emilian Czyrniański (Lemko Rusyn: Емілиян Чырняньскій; January 26, 1824 – April 14, 1888) was a Polish chemist of Lemko descent, science writer, rector of the Jagiellonian University and co-founder of the Polish Academy of Learning. He is responsible for developing chemical nomenclature in Polish. One of his grandsons was the highly influential political activist and writer, Józef Retinger.

Petro Kravchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1962-2022 (aged 60)
Occupations: politiciantractor driver
Biography: Petro Kostiantynovych Kravchuk was a Ukrainian politician. A member of Ukraine – Forward!, he served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2006 to 2008.

Andrii Demchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1987-.. (age 38)
Occupations: athlete
Biography: Andrii Demchuk is a Ukrainian wheelchair fencer who competes in épée, foil and sabre. He represented Ukraine at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and he won the gold medal in the men's sabre A event. He also represented Ukraine at the 2012 Summer Paralympics without winning a medal.

Marcin Kitz

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1891-1943 (aged 52)
Occupations: painter
Biography: Marcin Kitz was a Polish-Jewish painter.

Vasyl Hubal

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1967-.. (age 58)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Vasyl Ivanovych Hubal is a Ukrainian politician. In 2014 to 2015, he was a leading figure in a political life of Zakarpattia.

Wawrzyniec Dayczak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1882-1968 (aged 86)
Occupations: architect
Biography: Wawrzyniec Dayczak was a Polish architect and independence activist.

Janusz Witwicki

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1903-1946 (aged 43)
Occupations: professorhistorianarchitect
Biography: Janusz Witwicki was a Polish architect and art historian, creator of the Plastic Panorama of Old Lviv.

Stefan Niementowski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1866-1925 (aged 59)
Occupations: politicianuniversity teacherchemist
Biography: Stefan Niementowski (August 4, 1866 – July 13, 1925 was a Polish chemist. He discovered the Niementowski quinoline synthesis and the Niementowski quinazoline synthesis. He was a president of Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists (1920–22).

Edward Sucharda

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1891-1947 (aged 56)
Occupations: chemist
Biography: Edward Sucharda was a renowned Polish chemist and engineer. He was rector of Lwów University of Technology from 1938 to 1939 and vice-rector of Wrocław University of Technology from 1945 to 1947.

Orest Salamakha

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1991-.. (age 34)
Occupations: entrepreneurpolitician
Biography: Orest Ihorovych Salamakha is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 121st electoral district. He is a member of Servant of the People.

Vlodko Kaufman

Born in: Kazakhstan
Years: 1957-.. (age 68)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1978-1980
Occupations: curatorpainterperforming artistgraphic artist
Biography: Vlodko Kaufman (born March 2, 1957) is a Ukrainian artist of German descent, painter, graphic artist and performer. He is the author of many art projects, and participant in solo and group exhibitions.

Bohdan Dobrzański

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1909-1987 (aged 78)
Occupations: scientist
Biography: Bohdan Dobrzański was a Polish soil scientist, agrophysicist, agronomist, academic, and professor at several Warsaw- and Lublin-based universities. As the Rector of the Lublin Higher School of Agriculture, he led the formation of the first Chair of Soil Science in Poland. Dobrzański was a pioneer of agrophysics in Poland, a founder and long-time director of the Institute of Agrophysics in Lublin, and the Polish Journal of Soil Science. He is a co-author of the official Table of Land Classes and criteria for valorisation of agricultural production areas. He was awarded a number of prizes and medals including The Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

Józef Mączka

Born in: Poland
Years: 1888-1918 (aged 30)
Occupations: poetmilitary personnel
Biography: Józef Mieczysław Mączka was a Polish soldier, poet of the Polish Legions.

Alfred Zachariewicz

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1871-1937 (aged 66)
Occupations: architect
Biography: Alfred Zachariewicz, was a Polish architect. He was born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary on 26 August 1871, as the son of Julian Oktawjan Zachariewicz. He worked in the region of Galicia, mainly in Lviv, designing public and industrial buildings such as the edifices of Izba Handlowo-Przemysłowa, the Bank of Lviv, the Passage of Mikolasch in Lviv, as well as bridges, tenements, villas, goods stations (Lviv railway station).

Czesław Zbierański

Born in: Poland
Years: 1885-1982 (aged 97)
Occupations: engineermilitary flight engineermilitary officer
Biography: Czesław Michał Zbierański was a Polish engineer, pioneer of Polish aviation, major of Polish Army. In 1910–1911, with Stanisław Cywiński, he constructed an aircraft with two pairs of wings, the first Polish aircraft constructed partially with metal. In the 1920s, Zbierański was producing cars, motorcycles and rail draisines. He was also a Polonia activist, and founder of an English language book collection of the Aviation Institute in Warsaw (1962). He was awarded the 5th Class Virtuti Militari.

Joseph Dzhun

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1940-.. (age 85)
Occupations: mathematicianastronomer
Biography: Joseph Dzhun Volodymyrovych is a Ukrainian scientist, astronomer, and academician who was born in Cherniakhiv, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv Polytechnical Institute.

Kajetan Stefanowicz

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1886-1920 (aged 34)
Occupations: painterartist
Biography: Kajetan Stefanowicz was a Polish Art-Nouveau painter and illustrator of Armenian ancestry who served as a Rotmistrz (Cavalry Captain) with the Polish Legions in World War I.

Klemens Stefan Sielecki

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1903-1980 (aged 77)
Occupations: engineer
Biography: Klemens Stefan Sielecki was a Polish engineer and technical director of the first Polish Locomotive Factory Fablok in Chrzanów in the post-war years until 1964.

Karl Schenker

Born in: Romania
Years: 1886-1954 (aged 68)
Occupations: photographerpainterillustrator
Biography: Karl Schenker, was an Austrian photographer, illustrator of fashion magazines and painter. The artist, who mainly worked in Berlin, was Jewish and had to emigrate from Germany to London in 1938 and received British citizenship in 1948.

Péter Kónya

Born in: Hungary
Years: 1969-.. (age 56)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1994
Occupations: politiciantrade unionistmilitary personnel
Biography: Péter Kónya is a Hungarian soldier, journalist, trade unionist and politician, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 2014 to 2018. As leader of the Hungarian Solidarity Movement, he was a founding member of the Together party until he quit in October 2015.

Yaroslav Yaroslavenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1880-1958 (aged 78)
Occupations: civil engineeractivistcomposerconductor
Biography: Yaroslav Yaroslavenko was a Ukrainian composer who wrote the music for "Za Ukrainu" and a son of Ukrainian writer and poet Demeter Więckowski and Anna de Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz.

Wiktor Zygmunt Przedpełski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1891-1941 (aged 50)
Occupations: engineerpolitician
Biography: Wiktor Zygmunt Przedpełski was a Polish socialist and independence activist, member of the Sejm.

Bohdan Stefanowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1883-1976 (aged 93)
Occupations: academicengineer
Biography: Bohdan Stefanowski was a Polish expert in thermodynamics, one of founders of the Warsaw school of thermodynamics, the first rector of Lodz University of Technology.