65 Notable alumni of
Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
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Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University is 840th in the world, 297th in Europe, and 10th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 65 notable alumni from Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Ivan Franko
- Enrolled in Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
- Studied in 1891
- Occupations
- journalistliterary critictranslator of Adam Mickiewiczeconomistplaywright
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Ivan Yakovych Franko PhD was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in Ukrainian.
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Arsenii Yatseniuk
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- bankerpoliticianlawyerdiplomateconomist
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Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served two terms as Prime Minister of Ukraine – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and from 27 November 2014 to 14 April 2016. He was the youngest foreign affairs minister in Ukraine's history.
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Paul Celan
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- poetwritertranslatorliterary editoressayist
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Paul Celan was a German-speaking Romanian poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator. He adopted his pen name (an anagram of the Romanian spelling Ancel) following the war and resided in France from 1949, becoming a naturalized French citizen in 1955.
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Nazarii Yaremchuk
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- actorsingermusician
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Nazariy Nazarovych Yaremchuk was a Ukrainian singer, born in the village of Rivnya, Chernivtsi Oblast. He was posthumously named Hero of Ukraine in August 2021.
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Rose Ausländer
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- poetwriter
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Rose Ausländer was a Jewish poet writing in German and English. Born in Czernowitz in the Bukovina, she lived through its tumultuous history of belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kingdom of Romania, and eventually the Soviet Union. Rose Ausländer spent her life in several countries: Austria-Hungary, Romania, the United States, and West Germany.
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Oleksandr Ševčenko
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- politician
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Oleksandr Leonidovych Shevchenko is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, social activist, politician and a benefactor. He was a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 7th and 8th convocations. A candidate at presidential elections of Ukraine in 2019.
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Elizabeth Zarubina
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- spy
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Elizaveta Yulyevna Zarubina was a Soviet spy, holding the rank of podpolkovnik in the Ministry of State Security (Soviet Union). She was known as Elizabeth Zubilin while serving in the United States. Another alias was Elizaveta Gorskaya.
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Hermann Bahr
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- literary criticjournalistopinion journalisttheatre criticwriter
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Hermann Anastas Bahr was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and critic.
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Anatolii Matios
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- jurist
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Anatolii Matios was born on February 13, 1969, in the village of Roztoky, Putyla Raion of Chernivtsi Oblast, Bukovina. The Deputy Prosecutor-General of Ukraine since June 27, 2014; the Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine (June 27, 2014 - September 2, 2019). Colonel General of Justice PhD in Law.
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Maria Matios
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- writerdeputypoetpolitician
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Maria Matios is a Ukrainian poet, novelist and official. She won the "Book of the Year 2004" prize and the Taras Shevchenko National Prize.
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Oleksandr Zinchenko
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- journalistpolitician
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Oleksandr Oleksiyovych Zinchenko was a Ukrainian politician who was Director-General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine from 2009 to 2010. Oleksandr Zinchenko had a controversial career that includes Soviet Komsomol leadership, business in Russia and Ukraine, participation in the pro-Leonid Kuchma Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), survival of cancer and joining the anti-Kuchma opposition.
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Gala Galaction
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- linguistjournalistbiographertranslatorpolitician
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Gala Galaction was a Romanian Orthodox clergyman, theologian, writer, journalist, left-wing activist, as well as a political figure of the People's Republic of Romania. Contrary to political trends in interwar and WWII Romania, he was a promoter of tolerance towards the Jewish minority.
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Danylo Yanevsky
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- editing stafftelevision presenterhistorianjournalistradio personality
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Danylo Borysovych Yanevsky is a Ukrainian historian, TV personality, and radio host. He was awarded Honored Journalist of Ukraine (2005), and Doctor of Historical Sciences of Ukraine (2008).
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Andriy Pyshnyi
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- bankerpoliticiancentral bank governor
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Andriy Hryhorovych Pyshnyi is a Ukrainian politician and banker, who's currently serving as Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine since October 2022. Since 25 October 2022, he's a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. From 2014 to 2022, he was head of Oschadbank and from 2012 to 2014, he was People's Deputy of Ukraine.
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Pavlo Petrenko
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- lawyerpolitician
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Pavlo Dmytrovych Petrenko is a Ukrainian politician, jurist, lawyer.
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Gheorghe I. Brătianu
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- historianmedievalistpolitician
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Gheorghe I. Brătianu (28 January 1898 – 23–27 April 1953) was a Romanian politician and historian. A member of the Brătianu family and initially affiliated with the National Liberal Party, he broke away from the movement to create and lead the National Liberal Party-Brătianu. A history professor at the universities of Iași and Bucharest, he was elected titular member of the Romanian Academy. Arrested by the Communist authorities in 1950, he died at the notorious Sighet Prison.
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Andriy Ivanchuk
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- politician
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Andriy Volodymyrovych Ivanchuk was a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2012 until his death in 2023. Originally elected from the proportional representation list of Batkivshchyna, he was re-elected on the People's Front, finally serving from Ukraine's 88th electoral district in Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast from 2019 until his death. He was the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Policy.
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Cyril of Bulgaria
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Patriarch Cyril was the first Patriarch of the restored Bulgarian Patriarchate.
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Traian Popovici
- Enrolled in Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
- Graduated with law
- Occupations
- lawyermayorpolitician
- Biography
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Traian Popovici was a Romanian lawyer and mayor of Cernăuți during World War II, known for saving 20,000 Jews of Bukovina from deportation.
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Maksym Burbak
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- politician
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Maksym Yuriiovich Burbak is a Ukrainian politician who briefly served as Minister of Infrastructure in the First Yatsenyuk government. He was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2012 until 2019, first as a member of the party Batkivshchyna, then as a member of the People's Front. In July 2015 he was elected parliamentary leader of the People's Front parliamentary faction.
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Yosyf Zisels
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- dissidenthuman rights defender
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Yosyf Samuyilovych Zisels, also Josef Zissels, is a Ukrainian human rights activist and former Soviet dissident.
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Heorhii Mazurashu
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- community leadersports journalistpolitician
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Heorhiy Heorhiyovych Mazurashu is a Ukrainian sports journalist and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 203rd electoral district as a member of Servant of the People.
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Isydor Vorobkevych
- Enrolled in Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
- Studied in 1861
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- music teachervoice teacherwritercomposerauthor
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Sydir Ivanovych Vorobkevych, was a Ukrainian composer, writer, Eastern Orthodox priest, teacher, and artist. During his career he was the editor of the Austrian newspaper Bukovyna.
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Maxim Prodan
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- boxer
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Maxim Volodymyrovych Prodan is a Ukrainian professional boxer who held the IBF International welterweight title from 2019 to September 2021.
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Max Freiherr von Waldberg
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- germanistliterary historianphilologistuniversity teacher
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Max Freiherr von Waldberg was a professor of modern literature at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. After World War I, one of his students was Joseph Goebbels, later the Nazi's propaganda minister. Nevertheless, because of his Jewish ancestry, von Waldberg was one of several Heidelberg professors forced to retire in April 1933, when the Third Reich passed a Civil Service Law to remove university faculty members of "non-Aryan" descent.
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Serhiy Osachuk
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- historianpoliticianpublic figure
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Sergii Dmytrovych Osachuk is a Ukrainian officer, public servant and historian. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, actively participating in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Osachuk holds the rank of colonel. He served as Governor of Chernivtsi Oblast from 2019 to 2022.
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Serhii Rudyk
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- politician
- Biography
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Serhii Yaroslavovych Rudyk is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 27 November 2014.
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Józef Teodorowicz
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- archbishopCatholic bishopCatholic priesttheologianCatholic deacon
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Józef Teodorowicz was the last Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Lviv. All of his family were of Armenian origin and had lived for centuries in Poland.
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Oksana Prodan
- Enrolled in Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
- In 1996 studied international economics
- In 2002 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- public figurelawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Oksana Prodan is an Advisor to the Chairman of the Association of Cities of Ukraine, in 2020 Head of the Election Headquarters of Vitaliy Klychka, Member of Ukrainian Parliament of the VII and VIII convocations of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Head of The Supervisory Board of Chernivtsi National University named after. Y. Fedkovich, Head of the All-Ukrainian Association of Small and Medium Business “Fortetsya”, lawyer, she was one of the initiators and leaders of the Tax Maidan.
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Roman Bronfman
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- newspaper editorjournalistopinion journalistpolitician
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Roman Bronfman is a Ukrainian-born Israeli politician. He speaks Hebrew, English, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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Ion Nistor
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- historianpolitician
- Biography
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Ion I. Nistor was a Romanian historian and politician. He was a titular member of the Romanian Academy from 1915 and a professor at the universities of Cernăuți and Bucharest, while also serving as Minister of State for Bukovina, Minister of Public Works, Minister of Labor, and Minister of Religious Affairs and the Arts with a number of governments from 1918 to 1940.
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Vladimir Pechyony
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- journalist
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Vladimir Petrovich Pechyony, is a Ukrainian-born Russian statesman, who had served as the 4th governor of Magadan Oblast from 2013 to 2018.
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Mykhailo Papiyev
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- Russificationwartime collaboratorpolitician
- Biography
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Mykhailo Mykolayovych Papiyev is a Ukrainian engineer and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine since 2014, previously holding the position in 2002. He is also a former Minister of Labour and Social Policy, serving from 2002 to 2005 and from 2006 to 2007.
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Boris Trakhtenbrot
- Enrolled in Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
- Studied in 1945-1947
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- computer scientistmathematicianuniversity teacher
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Boris Abramovich Trakhtenbrot (Russian: Борис Авраамович Трахтенброт, Hebrew: בועז טרכטנברוט; 19 February 1921 – 19 September 2016) was a Russian-Israeli mathematician in logic, algorithms, theory of computation, and cybernetics.
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Marian Hadenko
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- composerpoettelevision presentersinger
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Marian Illich Hadenko was a Ukrainian composer, singer and television presenter. He was a recipient of the Merited Artist of Ukraine (1997) and the People's Artist of Ukraine (1999).
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Wojciech Rubinowicz
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- physicistuniversity teacher
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Wojciech Sylwester Piotr Rubinowicz was a Polish theoretical physicist who made contributions in quantum mechanics, mathematical physics, and the theory of radiation. He is known for the Maggie-Rubinowicz representation of Gustav Kirchhoff’s diffraction formula.
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Lubomyr Levytskyi
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Lubomir Vasyliovych Levitski is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and producer most noted for his production of the 2006 horror film Tunnel .
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Radu Grigorovici
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- physicist
- Biography
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Radu Grigorovici was a Romanian physicist specializing in condensed matter physics, solid-state physics, and amorphous semiconductors.
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Vasyl Filipchuk
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- diplomat
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Vasyl Filipchuk is a Ukrainian diplomat, politician, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Spokesperson (2005–2006) and Director of the Department for European Integration of the Secretariat of Cabinet of Ministers (2012–2013).
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Petar Zimonjić
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- Eastern Orthodox priest
- Biography
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Petar Zimonjić was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church serving as the metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1920 until the beginning of World War II.
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Dimitrie Onciul
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- historian
- Biography
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Dimitrie Onciul was a Romanian historian. He was a member of the Romanian Academy and its president from 1920 until his death in 1923.
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Ion Buzdugan
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- translatorpoetlawyerpolitician
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Ion Alion Buzdugan was a Bessarabian-Romanian poet, folklorist, and politician. A young schoolteacher in the Russian Empire by 1908, he wrote poetry and collected folklore emphasizing Bessarabia's links with Romania, and associated with various founding figures of the Romanian nationalist movement, beginning with Ion Pelivan. Buzdugan was a far-left figure during the February Revolution, but eventually rallied with the National Moldavian Party in opposition to the socialists and the Bolsheviks. He vehemently supported the union of Bessarabia with Romania during the existence of an independent Moldavian Democratic Republic, and, as a member of its legislature (Sfatul Țării), worked to bring it about. Threatened by the Bolsheviks, he fled to Romania and returned with an expeditionary corps headed by General Ernest Broșteanu, being one of the delegates who voted for the union, and one of dignitaries who signed its proclamation.
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Lia Shemtov
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- politician
- Biography
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Lia Shemtov is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of Nazareth Illit City Council. She was a member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu between 2006 and 2013.
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Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
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- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk is a Ukrainian author, film director and writer.
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Conon Arămescu-Donici
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- Eastern Orthodox priest
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Conon Arămescu-Donici was Metropolitan-Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church between 1912 and 1918. In conflict with the authorities of modern Romania, he was forced to resign due to his collaboration with German occupation troops during World War I.
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Oleksandr Fyshchuk
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- politician
- Biography
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Oleksandr Heorhiyovych Fyshchuk is a Ukrainian state official and later politician. Fyshchuk most notably served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine, from 2012 to 2014 in constituency No. 202, which is located within Chernivtsi, and as Governor of Chernivtsi Oblast from 2015 to 2018 when he voluntarily resigned.
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Traian Brăileanu
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- poetclassical scholartranslatorsociologistphilosopher
- Biography
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Traian Brăileanu or Brăilean was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian sociologist and politician. A native of the Bukovina region, he attended Czernowitz University, where he studied philosophy and classical languages, subsequently earning a doctorate. Ending up as a translator in Vienna, he fought for Austria during World War I. At the conclusion of hostilities, returned to the renamed Cernăuți, now part of Greater Romania. There, he soon became a professor of sociology, leading a "Cernăuți School" of academics during the interwar period.
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Ion Grămadă
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- historiansoldierjournalist
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Ion Grămadă was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, historian and journalist. A native of Bukovina, he joined the Romanian Army and died in battle during World War I.
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Count Georg Wassilko von Serecki
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- politician
- Biography
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Graf Georg Wassilko von Serecki, was an Austrian Empire-born ethnic Romanian statesman, Landeshauptmann of the Duchy of Bucovina and hereditary member of the Herrenhaus, the Upper House of the Imperial Council of Austria.
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Kassian Bogatyrets
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- historianEastern Orthodox priestpolitician
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Kassian Dmitrievich Bogatyrets, or Kasyan Dmytrovych Bohatyrets, was an Eastern Orthodox priest, church historian, and Rusyn community leader in Bukovina. Born a national of Austria-Hungary, he studied theology and history, and served the parish of Sadhora. He drew the suspicion of Austrian authorities attention with his open support for Russophile politics, and was persecuted after visiting the Russian Empire in 1908. He was arrested during the first days of World War I and deported to Sankt Marien, then tried for sedition in Vienna. He was scheduled to be executed by hanging in early 1917, but was freed by a general amnesty shortly before the Austrian monarchy crumbled.
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Berl Locker
- Years
- 1887-1972 (aged 85)
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- lawyerpolitician
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Berl Locker was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
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Benno Straucher
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- lawyerpolitician
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Benno or Beno Straucher (Yiddish: בענאָ שטרױכער; Ukrainian: Бенно Штраухер; August 11, 1850/1854 – November 5, 1940) was a Bukovina-born Austro-Hungarian lawyer, politician and Jewish community representative, who spent the final part of his career in Romania. A Jewish nationalist influenced by classical liberalism and Zionism, he first held political offices in Czernowitz city. After 1897, he was one of the noted Jewish representatives in the Austrian Parliament's upper chamber (Abgeordnetenhaus). Straucher, who was instrumental in creating the reformist Progressive Peasants' Fellowship, maintained his Abgeordnetenhaus seat throughout the remainder of Austria-Hungary's existence. From 1906, he led the Jewish National People's Party locally and helped establish the pan-Austrian Jewish National Party. He vied for political direction over the Bukovina Jews with several other groups, most notably the Zionist People's Council Party of Mayer Ebner, who became his personal rival.
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Constantin Isopescu-Grecul
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- poetjuristacademicjudgepolitician
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Constantin Ritter von Isopescu-Grecul was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian jurist, politician, and journalist. He represented the Duchy of Bukovina and a Romanian constituency in the Austrian House of Deputies continuously from 1907, participating in the political events of World War I. He was foremost known as a legal reformer and a political moderate, who objected to radical forms of Romanian nationalism and mainly sought to obtain a special status for the Romanians within a reformed Austria. His loyalism was rewarded by the Austrian authorities and antagonized the Romanian National People's Party, but Isopescu-Grecul also took distance from the pro-Austrian line advocated by Aurel Onciul. In 1908, Isopescu-Grecul joined Nicu Flondor and Teofil Simionovici in creating an Independent Party, which espoused a moderate program. He later rallied behind Iancu Flondor, embracing his conservative approach to national issues.
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Maksym Kovalenko
- Enrolled in Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
- In 2004 graduated with Master of Science
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- chemist
- Biography
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Maksym V. Kovalenko is a full professor of inorganic chemistry and the head of the Functional Inorganic Materials group at ETH Zurich. A part of the research activities of the group are conducted at Empa (Dübendorf). He is working in the fields of solid-state chemistry, quantum dots and other nanomaterials, surface chemistry, self-assembly, optical spectroscopy, optoelectronics and energy storage.
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Volodymyr Tymofiychuk
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- farmerentrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Volodymyr Yaroslavovych Tymofiychuk is a Ukrainian farmer and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 89th electoral district as a member of Servant of the People since 29 August 2019.
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Roman Vanzuryak
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- politician
- Biography
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Roman Stepanovych Vanzuryak is a Ukrainian customs officer and later politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada.
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Yehuda Sha'ari
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- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Yehuda Sha'ari was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Liberal Party and the Independent Liberals between 1961 and 1977.
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Herman Diamand
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Herman Diamand was a Polish lawyer and socialist politician of Jewish origin, cofounder of Workers' Party of Galicia. Member of the Austrian parliament then member of the Polish Parliament till his death.
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Salo Weisselberger
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- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Salomon Weisselberger, also surnamed as von Weisselberger was an Austro-Hungarian and Romanian Jewish politician, jurist and judge who served as a member of Bukovina's Landtag during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, mayor of Czernowitz, a member of the Senate of Romania, and then a member of its Chamber of Deputies.
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Olha Ilyina
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- film actortheatrical directorstage actor
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Olha Oleksiivna Ilyina was a Ukrainian actress and director. People's Artist of Ukraine.
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Avram Imbroane
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- politicianbanker
- Biography
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Avram Imbroane was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician, businessman, and Orthodox priest. Born in the western half of Banat, he was active in nationalist agitation among that region's Romanian community, and later also in Transylvania. By the time of World War I, he supported secession and the unconditional union of Transylvania and the Banat with the Kingdom of Romania. He fled Austria-Hungary and engaged in propaganda work—first in Romania, then among the Transylvanian prisoners-of-war in the Russian Republic. In late 1918, he returned to the Banat and became an active participant in the unionist struggle, participating in the assemblies of the Great Union.
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Georgije Letić
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- Eastern Orthodox priest
- Biography
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Georgije Letić was the bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church in what is today Romania. He was a progressive educator who promoted co-education.
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Volodymyr Dobrianskyi
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- local historianarchaeologist
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Volodymyr Kazymyrovych Dobrianskyi is a Ukrainian scientist, archaeologist, historian, speleologist, and researcher of antiquities, fortifications and toponymy. He became a member of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments in 1981, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 2000, and the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine from 2016 to 2020. He also co-founded the NGO "Alternatyva-Chortkiv". He also participated in liquidating the Chornobyl accident of the second category.
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Vasile Grigorcea
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- diplomatjurist
- Biography
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Vasile Grigorcea was a Romanian diplomat. His main assignments were minister plenipotentiary of Romania to Hungary, Poland, United Kingdom, and the Vatican.
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Emilian Voiutschi
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- theologian
- Biography
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Emilian Voiutschi was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian theologian and cleric of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
