100 Notable Alumni of Lviv Polytechnic National University

Stepan Bandera

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

Gosha Kutsenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
Occupations: television actoractorstage actorpoetsinger
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.

Denys Shmyhal

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1975-.. (age 49)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1997
Occupations: politicianbusinesspersoncivil servant
Biography: Denys Anatoliiovych Shmyhal is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who is the 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.

Władysław Sikorski

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

Stefan Banach

Born in: Poland
Years: 1892-1945 (aged 53)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: 1911-1913 studied engineering
Occupations: university teachermathematician
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.

Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski

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

Yuriy Lutsenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1964-.. (age 60)
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.

Stanisław Ulam

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1909-1984 (aged 75)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1927-1933
Occupations: university teacherphysicistmathematician
Biography: Stanisław Marcin Ulam was a Polish-American 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 some theorems and proposed several conjectures.

Józef Beck

Born in: Poland
Years: 1894-1944 (aged 50)
Occupations: military personneldiplomatpolitician
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: politicianmilitary personnel
Biography: General Kazimierz Sosnkowski was a Polish independence fighter, general, diplomat, and architect.

Andriy Sadovyi

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1968-.. (age 56)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1995
Occupations: public figurepoliticianentrepreneur
Biography: Andriy Ivanovych Sadovyi is a Ukrainian politician. He is the mayor of Lviv, the administrative centre of the Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine, former leader of the Self Reliance political party, and co-founder of "Lux" media holding. Sadovyi was a candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election from 8 January until 1 March 2019, when he decided to withdraw.

Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski

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

Liliia Hrynevych

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1965-.. (age 59)
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.

Victoria Amelina

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1986-2023 (aged 37)
Occupations: novelistprogrammerwritertranslatoressayist
Biography: Viktoriia Yuriyivna Amelina, later known as Victoria Amelina, was a Ukrainian novelist. 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.

Volodymyr Omelyan

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1979-.. (age 45)
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.

Tatiana Anodina

Born in: Russia
Years: 1939-.. (age 85)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1965
Occupations: university teacheraeronautical 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.

Kazimierz Bartel

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1882-1941 (aged 59)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1907
Occupations: university teacherpoliticianmathematician
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.

Jędrzej Moraczewski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1870-1944 (aged 74)
Occupations: writerrailway engineerpoliticianopinion journalisttrade 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 62)
Occupations: journalist
Biography: Vera Viktorovna Kamsha is a Russian author of high fantasy and a journalist.

Stepan Kubiv

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1962-.. (age 62)
Occupations: bankerpoliticianeconomist
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.

Iryna Lutsenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
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.

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 62)
Occupations: journalisttranslatorpoet
Biography: Yuriy Romanovych Izdryk is a Ukrainian writer, poet and author of the conceptual magazine project Chetver, also known as Thursday.

Simon Osiashvili

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
Occupations: engineeractorprogrammersongwriterlyricist
Biography: Simon Abramovich Osiashvili is a Russian poet, singer, Honoured Artist of Russia (2002).

Petro Franko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1890-1941 (aged 51)
Occupations: writerpoliticianteacherpedagogueanthropologist
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.

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: engineerinventor
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.

Dmytro Dobrodomov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1977-.. (age 47)
Occupations: politicianjournalist
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.

Stefan Bryła

Born in: Poland
Years: 1886-1943 (aged 57)
Occupations: architectpedagoguepoliticianinventorengineer
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: military officerpolitician
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 64)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1982
Occupations: economistpolitician
Biography: Oleksandr Vіtaliyovych Shlapak is a Ukrainian politician, bureaucrat, and former Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

Diana Reiter

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1902-1943 (aged 41)
Occupations: architect
Biography: Diana Reiter [Reiterówna] was a Polish architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Kraków. Born in Drohobycz, in 1927 she graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of Lviv Polytechnic. In the years 1928–1931 she worked in the Directorate of Public Works of the Provincial Office in Kraków with two other architects, Zdzisław Kowalski and Adam Moscheni. In the years 1930–1931 she was a technical officer, gave opinions on the designs of newly built buildings in Krynica and dealt with appeals against decisions of the Kraków construction authorities. At the request of the provincial conservator of monuments she dealt with the restoration of the royal castle in Niepołomice. Due to the economic situation, she was dismissed at the end of 1931. In 1932–1934 she worked in the office of Kazimierz Kulczyński, making architectural drawings.

Oleg Shupliak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
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 75)
Occupations: human rights activistuniversity teacher
Biography: Myroslav Frankovych Marynovych is a Ukrainian educator, human rights activist, and former Soviet dissident currently serving as 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 contractorarchitectpedagogueentrepreneur
Biography: Ivan Ivanovich Levynskyi was a Ukrainian-German architect, teacher, businessman and public figure.

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.

Mykola Riabchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1953-.. (age 71)
Occupations: writerpoettranslatorpolitical scientistjournalist
Biography: Mykola Riabchuk - 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.

Volodymyr Melnyk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1952-.. (age 72)
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.

Oleh Kutsyn

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1965-2022 (aged 57)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1989
Occupations: public figurepoliticianwarlord
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.

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.

Sergey Obukhov

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1958-.. (age 66)
Occupations: politicianmember of the State Duma
Biography: Sergei Obukhov is the secretary of the central committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the 5th and 6th convocation (Moscow). He is also a member of the State Duma Committee for public associations and religious organizations.

Tytus Maksymilian Huber

Born in: Poland
Years: 1872-1950 (aged 78)
Occupations: engineermechanical engineeruniversity teacherscientist
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.

Jan Sas Zubrzycki

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1860-1935 (aged 75)
Occupations: historianarchitectuniversity teacherrestorer
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 Lemberg (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.

Jan Franciszek Czartoryski

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

Leontii Voitovych

Born in: Russia
Years: 1951-2023 (aged 72)
Occupations: historianresearch fellow
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: topologistmathematician
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 49)
Occupations: economistpoliticiancivil servant
Biography: Ihor Rostyslavovych Petrashko is a Ukrainian economist and politician. 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.

Wacław Szybalski

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

Taras Voznyak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1957-.. (age 67)
Occupations: publisherwriterphilosophertranslatorpolitical scientist
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).

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.

Stefan Stec

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1889-1921 (aged 32)
Occupations: flying aceengineermilitary 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.

Kmit Mykola

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1966-.. (age 58)
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 85)
Occupations: statespersonmember of the State Dumapolitician
Biography: Nikolay Mikhailovich Olshansky is a Russian politician who served as a senator from Voronezh Oblast from 2011 to 2013.

Petro Pysarchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1955-.. (age 69)
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.

August Witkowski

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

Andriy Grechylo

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1963-.. (age 61)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1985
Occupations: designerhistorianheraldist
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.

Włodzimierz Stożek

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1883-1941 (aged 58)
Occupations: university teachermathematician
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: association football playermechanical engineer
Biography: Mieczysław Józef Batsch a.k.a. Bacz was a Polish soccer forward. He represented both Pogoń 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 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.

Tadeusz Kuchar

Born in: Poland
Years: 1891-1966 (aged 75)
Occupations: engineerassociation football managerassociation football playerathletics competitor
Biography: Tadeusz Kuchar was a Polish athlete, footballer, swimmer, ice-skater, skier, sports official, and the brother of Wacław Kuchar.

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.

Władysław Jarocki

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1879-1965 (aged 86)
Occupations: explorerpaintertraveleruniversity 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 53)
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.

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.

Stefan Bastyr

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

Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1906-1982 (aged 76)
Occupations: chemistphysicist
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: designerengineer
Biography: Franciszek Misztal - Polish aircraft designer.

Petro Kravchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1962-2022 (aged 60)
Occupations: tractor driverpolitician
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.

Emilian Czyrniański

Born in: Poland
Years: 1824-1888 (aged 64)
Occupations: chemistuniversity teacherpolitician
Biography: Emilian Czyrniański (Lemko 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.

Andrii Demchuk

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1987-.. (age 37)
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.

Stefan Niementowski

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1866-1925 (aged 59)
Occupations: chemistuniversity teacherpolitician
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).

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

Vasyl Hubal

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1967-.. (age 57)
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.

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.

Józef Mączka

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

Orest Salamakha

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1991-.. (age 33)
Occupations: politicianentrepreneur
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 67)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1978-1980
Occupations: graphic artistperforming artistpaintercurator
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

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.

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 Juljan Oktawjan Zacharjewicz. 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: aerospace engineerengineermilitary 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 84)
Occupations: astronomermathematician
Biography: Joseph Dzhun Volodymyrovych is a Ukrainian scientist, astronomer, and academician who was born in Cherniakhiv, Zhytomyr, Ukraine. He graduated from Lviv Polytechnical Institute.

Karl Schenker

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

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.

Wiktor Zygmunt Przedpełski

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

Yaroslav Yaroslavenko

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1880-1958 (aged 78)
Occupations: conductorcomposeractivistcivil engineer
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.

Oleh Holovchak

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1951-.. (age 73)
Occupations: architect
Biography: Oleh Ivanovych Holovchak is a Ukrainian architect. He is a member of the National Architect's Union of Ukraine since 1978. He designs housing, civilian and religious construction.

Kajetan Stefanowicz

Born in: Ukraine
Years: 1886-1920 (aged 34)
Occupations: artistpainter
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.

Bohdan Stefanowski

Born in: Poland
Years: 1883-1976 (aged 93)
Occupations: engineeracademic
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.

Vladyslav Nosov

Born in: Russia
Years: 1946-.. (age 78)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1964-1969
Occupations: politicianjuristdeputy
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.

Péter Kónya

Born in: Hungary
Years: 1969-.. (age 55)
Enrolled in Lviv Polytechnic National University: Studied in 1994
Occupations: military personneltrade unionistpolitician
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.