62 Notable alumni of
Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
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Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University is 849th in the world, 296th in Europe, and 11th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 62 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
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- literary criticpoeteconomisttranslatorplaywright
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Ivan Yakovych Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, translator, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in the Ukrainian language.
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk
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- international forum participantlawyereconomistdiplomatpolitician
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Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine twice – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and from 27 November 2014 to 14 April 2016.
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Paul Celan
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- poetlyricisttranslatoressayist
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Paul Celan, born Paul Antschel, (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian poet and translator, regarded as one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. His poetry is characterized by a complicated and cryptic style that deviates from poetic conventions.
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Rose Ausländer
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- writerpoet
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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 Germany.
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Oleksandr Shevchenko
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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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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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Hermann Bahr
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- writertheatre criticopinion journalistjournalistliterary critic
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Hermann Anastas Bahr was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and critic.
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Elizabeth Zarubina
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- spy
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Elizaveta Yulyevna Zarubina was a Soviet spy, podpolkovnik of the MGB. She was known as Elizabeth Zubilin while serving in the United States. Another alias was Elizaveta Gorskaya.
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Maria Matios
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- poetdeputywriterpolitician
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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 Award.
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Oleksandr Zinchenko
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- politicianjournalist
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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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- linguistBible translatorphilosopherpoliticiantranslator
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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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- historiantelevision presenterediting staffradio personalityjournalist
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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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- bankerpolitician
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Andriy Hryhorovych Pyshnyi is a Ukrainian banker and politician. He is the chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine and a member of the NSDC of Ukraine.
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Pavlo Petrenko
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- politicianlawyer
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Pavlo Dmytrovych Petrenko is Ukrainian politician, jurist, lawyer.
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Andriy Ivanchuk
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- politician
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Andriy Volodymyrovych Ivanchuk was a Ukrainian politician. He served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine, and was a member of the Popular Front party and of the Dovira parliamentary group. He was the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Policy.
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Gheorghe I. Brătianu
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- historianpoliticianmedievalist
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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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Maksym Burbak
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- politician
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Maksym Yurіyovich Burbak is a Ukrainian politician and former Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine. He was an MP 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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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
- politicianmayorlawyer
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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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Isydor Vorobkevych
- Enrolled in Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
- Studied in 1861
- Occupations
- authorcomposerwritervoice teachermusic teacher
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Sydir Vorobkevych was a Ukrainian composer, writer, Eastern Orthodox priest, teacher, artist, and newspaper editor of Bukovina. He used following pen-names: Danylo Mlaka, Demko Makoviychuk, Morozenko, Semen Khrin, Isydor Vorobkevych, S.Volokh, and others.
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Yosyf Zisels
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- human rights activistdissident
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Yosyf Samuyilovych Zisels, also Josef Zissels, is a Ukrainian human rights activist and former Soviet dissident.
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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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Serhiy Osachuk
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- historianpublic figurepolitician
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Serhiy Dmytrovych Osachuk is a Ukrainian historian and politician. He served as Governor of Chernivtsi Oblast from 2019 to 2022.
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Heorhii Mazurashu
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- politiciansports journalistcommunity leader
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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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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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Max Freiherr von Waldberg
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- literary historiangermanistuniversity teacherphilologist
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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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Józef Teodorowicz
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishoparchbishoppoliticianCatholic 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
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- public figurepoliticianlawyer
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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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- journalistnewspaper editorpoliticianopinion journalist
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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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- politicianhistorian
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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
- Biography
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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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Boris Trakhtenbrot
- Enrolled in Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
- Studied in 1945-1947
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- mathematiciancomputer scientist
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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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Mykhailo Papiyev
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- politicianwartime collaboratorRussification
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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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Wojciech Rubinowicz
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- university teacherphysicist
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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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Marian Hadenko
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- poetcomposersingertelevision presenter
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Marian 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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Radu Grigorovici
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- physicist
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Radu Grigorovici was a Romanian physicist.
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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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Ion Buzdugan
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- lawyerpoettranslatorpolitician
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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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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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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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Oleksandr Fyshchuk
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- politician
- Biography
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Oleksandr Heorhiyovych Fyshchuk is a Ukrainian state official and later politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada.
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Lubomyr Levytskyi
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Lubomir Levitski is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and producer most noted for his production of the 2006 horror film Штольня (English: Tunnel).
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Petar Zimonjić
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- 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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Conon Arămescu-Donici
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- priest
- Biography
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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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Ion Grămadă
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- historianjournalistsoldier
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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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Kassian Bogatyrets
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- historianpoliticianEastern Orthodox priest
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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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Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
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- screenwriterfilm director
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Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk is a Ukrainian author, film director and writer.
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Traian Brăileanu
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- sociologisttranslatorclassical scholarpoetpolitician
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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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Count Georg Wassilko von Serecki
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- politician
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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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Berl Locker
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- politicianlawyer
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Berl Locker was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician.
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Benno Straucher
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- politicianlawyer
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Benno or Beno Straucher 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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- juristpoetdiplomatpoliticianjudge
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Constantin Ritter von Isopescu-Grecul was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian jurist, politician, and journalist. He represented the region 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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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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Volodymyr Tymofiychuk
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- farmerpoliticianentrepreneur
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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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Yehuda Sha'ari
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- politiciantrade unionist
- 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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- politicianlawyer
- 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 Parlement till his death.
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Salo Weisselberger
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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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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Avram Imbroane
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- bankerpolitician
- 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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- 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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Vasile Grigorcea
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- juristdiplomat
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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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Volodymyr Dobrianskyi
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- archaeologistlocal historian
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Volodymyr 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 "Alternative-Chortkiv". He also participated in liquidating the Chernobyl accident of the second category.
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Emilian Voiutschi
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- theologian
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Emilian Voiutschi was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian theologian and cleric of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
