1. Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk was an influential Ukrainian modernist writer and political activist.
10 Facts About Vasyl Stefanyk
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Vasyl Stefanyk was a member of the Austrian parliament from 1908 to 1918.
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Vasyl Stefanyk was born on May 14,1871, in the village of Rusiv in the family of a well-to-do peasant.
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Vasyl Stefanyk was born in the historical region of Pokuttia, then part of Austria-Hungary.
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Vasyl Stefanyk died on December 7,1936, in the same village, Rusiv, at that time the part of Poland.
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Vasyl Stefanyk later studied at Polish gymnasia in Kolomyia and Drohobych.
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Vasyl Stefanyk was expelled from the Kolomea gymnasium for the participation in a revolutionary group.
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Vasyl Stefanyk eventually graduated from the Drohobych gymnasium, and enrolled in the University of Krakow in 1892.
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Vasyl Stefanyk was deeply concerned with the destiny of Ukrainian immigrants to Canada and often mentioned them in his many writings.
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The monument that was erected to commemorate Vasyl' Stefanyk is located at the Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, east of Edmonton, Alberta.