100 Notable Alumni of Lviv Polytechnic National University

Stepan Bandera

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1909-1959 (aged 50)
Occupations: politicianpartisan
Biography: Stepan Andriyovych Bandera was a Ukrainian far-right leader of the radical militant faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B.

Roman Shukhevych

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1907-1950 (aged 43)
Occupations: military personnelresistance fighterpolitician
Biography: Roman-Taras Osypovych Shukhevych was a Ukrainian nationalist and a military leader of the nationalist Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which during the Second World War fought against the Soviet Union and to a lesser extent against Nazi Germany for Ukrainian independence. He collaborated with the Nazis from February 1941 to December 1942 as commanding officer of the Nachtigall Battalion in early 1941, and as a Hauptmann of the German Schutzmannschaft 201 auxiliary police battalion in late 1941 and 1942.

Denys Shmyhal

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1997
Occupations: civil servanteconomistbusinesspersonpolitician
Biography: Denys Anatoliiovych Shmyhal is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who served as the 18th prime minister of Ukraine from 2020 to 2025. He has served as the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and the Minister of Energy of Ukraine since 14 January 2026, previously serving as the minister of defence from 2025 to 2026, as governor of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast from 2019 to 2020 and as an acting deputy prime minister in the Honcharuk government.

Gosha Kutsenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1967-.. (age 59)
Occupations: stage actoractortelevision actorpublic figurefilm producer
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. Before World War I, Sikorski established and participated in several underground organizations that promoted the cause of Polish independence. He fought with distinction in the Polish Legions during World War I, and later in the newly created Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. In the latter war, he played a prominent role in the decisive 1920 Battle of Warsaw.

Andrii Parubii

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1971-2025 (aged 54)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: In 2001 graduated with bachelor's degree in sociology and political science
Occupations: politician
Biography: Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy was a Ukrainian politician and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 2007 until his assassination in 2025, and served as its chairman from 2016 to 2019.

Stefan Banach

Born in: Poland
Years: 1892-1945 (aged 53)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: 1911-1913 studied engineering
Occupations: mathematicianuniversity teacher
Biography: Stefan Banach was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians. He was the founder of modern functional analysis, and an original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. His major work was the 1932 book, Théorie des opérations linéaires (Theory of Linear Operations), the first monograph on the general theory of functional analysis.

Stanisław Ulam

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1909-1984 (aged 75)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1927-1933
Occupations: university teachermathematicianphysicist
Biography: Stanisław Marcin Ulam was a Polish and, later an American mathematician who made important contribution in advancing the understanding of nuclear physics and computer science. 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 championed nuclear pulse propulsion. In pure and applied mathematics, he proved a number of theorems and proposed several conjectures.

Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1895-1966 (aged 71)
Occupations: event ridermilitary officerpolitician
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.

Yuriy Lutsenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1964-.. (age 62)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Yuriy Vitaliyovych Lutsenko is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Interior Minister and entered the Armed Forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. His most recent position was Prosecutor General of Ukraine (from 12 May 2016 until 29 August 2019). Lutsenko has been a long serving people's deputy in the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament); first elected in 2002 and reelected in 2007 and 2014.

Józef Beck

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

Kazimierz Sosnkowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1885-1969 (aged 84)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: In 1907 studied architecture
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 58)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1995
Occupations: public figureentrepreneurpolitician
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: university teacherpoliticianengineerchemisteconomist
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: programmerwritertranslatorprose writerpoet
Biography: Viktoriia 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 61)
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.

Vera Kamsha

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: journalistwriter
Biography: Vera Viktorovna Kamsha is a Russian author of high fantasy and a journalist.

Volodymyr Omelyan

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1979-.. (age 47)
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: university teachermathematicianpolitician
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 a 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.

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 served as Prime Minister of Poland from 1918 to 1919. was one of the leaders of the Polish Socialist Party. He had previously served as Minister of Communications. Subsequently, from 1925 to 1929, he served as Minister of Public Labour.

Stepan Kubiv

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: bankereconomistpolitician
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.

Petro Franko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1890-1941 (aged 51)
Occupations: teacherpoliticianwriteranthropologistpedagogue
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 member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

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.

Yuriy Izdryk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1962-.. (age 64)
Occupations: translatorpoetjournalistlibrettist
Biography: Yuriy Romanovych Izdryk is a Ukrainian writer, poet, actor, and the creator of the conceptual magazine project Chetver (Thursday). He is the author of the novels Wozzeck & Woczkurgia (1996, 1997), Double Leon (2000) and AM™ (2004), as well as the poetry collection Stanislav and his 11 Liberators (1996), several essay and short story collections (including The Island of Krk and Other Stories, 1993), plus cultural and literary criticism articles. A co-founder of the Stanislav phenomenon, a group of postmodernist post-Soviet writers, Izdryk is also a visual artist, music composer, and theater practitioner. He lives and works in his birthplace, Kalush, Ukraine.

Iryna Lutsenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1966-.. (age 60)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: In 1988 studied applied mathematics
Occupations: politician
Biography: Iryna Stepanivna Lutsenko is a Ukrainian politician, who served as a Member of the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2019.

Simon Osiashvili

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1952-.. (age 74)
Occupations: programmeractorengineerpoetguitarist
Biography: Simon Abramovich Osiashvili is a Russian poet, singer, Honoured Artist of Russia (2002).

Tatiana Anodina

Born in: Russia
Years: 1939-.. (age 87)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1965
Occupations: aerospace engineerscientistuniversity teacher
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.

Tadeusz Sendzimir

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1894-1989 (aged 95)
Occupations: inventormechanical engineer
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.

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.

Diana Reiter

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1902-1943 (aged 41)
Occupations: architect
Biography: Diana Julia 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.

Stefan Bryła

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

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.

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.

Dmytro Dobrodomov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1977-.. (age 49)
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 political party 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.

Oleg Shupliak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1967-.. (age 59)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1991
Occupations: painter
Biography: Oleg Illich Shupliak is a Ukrainian artist living in Berezhany. Son of Nina Shupliak, father of Vitalii Shupliak.

Oleksandr Shlapak

Born in: Russia
Years: 1960-.. (age 66)
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.

Myroslav Marynovych

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1949-.. (age 77)
Occupations: university teacherhuman rights defender
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: general contractorentrepreneurpedagoguearchitect
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: public figuremilitary leaderpolitician
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 74)
Occupations: scientist
Biography: Volodymyr Petrovych Melnyk is a Ukrainian professor of philosophy who served as rector of the University of Lviv between 2014 and 2025.

Mykola Riabchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1953-.. (age 73)
Occupations: political scientistpoetwritertranslatoropinion journalist
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.

Sergey Obukhov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1958-.. (age 68)
Occupations: politician
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 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.

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.

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.

Jan Sas Zubrzycki

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1860-1935 (aged 75)
Occupations: historianrestoreruniversity teacherarchitect
Biography: Jan Sas Zubrzycki was a Polish architect known for his neo-Gothic designs and for developing the "Vistula style". His most notable work is the grand Governor's Palace in Lviv (1876). In 1920, he was appointed to the Board of the Union of Polish Scientific Societies, representing the Society for the Protection of Monuments of Art and Culture.

Tytus Maksymilian Huber

Born in: Poland
Years: 1872-1950 (aged 78)
Occupations: mechanical engineerengineerscientistuniversity teacher
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.

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.

Leontii Voitovych

Born in: Russia
Years: 1951-2023 (aged 72)
Occupations: historianresearch fellowmedievalistuniversity teacher
Biography: Leontii Viktorovich Voitovych was a Ukrainian scientist and historian who held a Doctor of Science (Ukrainian: Доктор наук) 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.

Ihor Petrashko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: economistcivil servantpolitician
Biography: Ihor Rostyslavovych Petrashko is a US educated economist who served as Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine from 17 March 2020, until 18 May 2021.

Rehina Kharchenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1990-.. (age 36)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 2022
Occupations: chinovnikpolitician
Biography: Rehina Vladyslavivna Kharchenko is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer and jurist who is currently serving as mayor of Zaporizhzhia since 24 April 2024.

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.

Kmit Mykola

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1966-.. (age 60)
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).

Wacław Szybalski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1921-2020 (aged 99)
Occupations: scientistuniversity teachergeneticistoncologistphysician
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.

Oleksii Kaida

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1971-.. (age 55)
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.

Stefan Stec

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1889-1921 (aged 32)
Occupations: flying acemilitary officerengineer
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 71)
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.

Andriy Grechylo

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1963-.. (age 63)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1985
Occupations: historiandesignerheraldistpublic figure
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.

Nikolay Olshansky

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1939-.. (age 87)
Occupations: statespersonpolitician
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.

August Witkowski

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

Taras Voznyak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1957-.. (age 69)
Occupations: publisherjournalistcultural studies scholarpolitical scientisttranslator
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).

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.

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.

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.

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 coachengineerathletics competitorassociation football player
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: painterexplorertraveleruniversity 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 55)
Occupations: politician
Biography: Andriy Bohdanovych Kit is a Ukrainian politician. He is a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 8th and 9th convocations.

Franciszek Vetulani

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

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.

Stefan Bastyr

Born in: Poland
Years: 1890-1920 (aged 30)
Occupations: military officerfighter pilotmechanical engineer
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.

Hanna Bondar

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1975-.. (age 51)
Occupations: civil servantpoliticianart historianarchitect
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.

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.

Franciszek Misztal

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

Emilian Czyrniański

Born in: Poland
Years: 1824-1888 (aged 64)
Occupations: university teacherchemistpolitician
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.

Marcin Kitz

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

Andrii Demchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1987-.. (age 39)
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.

Vladyslav Nosov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1946-.. (age 80)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1964-1969
Occupations: deputyjuristpolitician
Biography: Vladyslav Vasylyovych Nosov is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer, and civil servant. He was a co-author of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, the Regulations of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and the Constitution of Ukraine. He was the first Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, serving from 25 May 1998 to 22 January 2005.

Vlodko Kaufman

Born in: Kazakhstan
Years: 1957-.. (age 69)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1978-1980
Occupations: painterperforming artistgraphic artistcurator
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.

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: historianarchitectprofessor
Biography: Janusz Witwicki was a Polish architect and art historian, creator of the Plastic Panorama of Old Lviv.

Orest Salamakha

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1991-2026 (aged 35)
Occupations: entrepreneurpolitician
Biography: Orest Ihorovych Salamakha was a Ukrainian politician serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 121st electoral district. He was a member of Servant of the People.

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.

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.

Stefan Niementowski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1866-1925 (aged 59)
Occupations: university teacherchemistpolitician
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).

Vasyl Hubal

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1967-.. (age 59)
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.

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).

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.

Péter Kónya

Born in: Hungary
Years: 1969-.. (age 57)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1994
Occupations: military personnelpoliticiantrade unionist
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.

Czesław Zbierański

Born in: Poland
Years: 1885-1982 (aged 97)
Occupations: military flight engineermilitary officerengineer
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.

Karl Schenker

Born in: Romania
Years: 1886-1954 (aged 68)
Occupations: painterillustratorphotographer
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.