Stepan Klochurak
Stepan Klochurak | |
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Stepan Klochurak during a meeting with Czechoslovak president Emil Hácha, 1939 | |
| Born | 27 February 1895 |
| Died | 8 February 1980 (aged 84) |
| Resting place | Olšany Cemetery, Prague |
| Term | 1919 Prime Minister of the Hutsul Republic |
| Political party | Social Democratic (1920s) Agrarian-Republican (1930s) Ukrainian National Union (1939) |
Stepan Klochurak (Rusyn: Степан Клочурак) (27 February 1895 - 8 February 1980) was a Rusyn-Ukrainian social-democratic and agrarian politician and lawyer. He was the Prime Minister of the short lived Hutsul Republic in 1919.[1] In 1939, in the same general area, he was the Minister of Defense of Carpatho-Ukraine. In 1945 he was arrested by NKVD and imprisoned in Gulag near Vorkuta until 1957. He is a relative of Halina Pawlowská.
Awards
- Order of Liberty (March 14, 2019, posthumously)[2]
Memoirs
Klochurak, Stepan (1978). Do Voli (Strive for freedom: memories) (book) (in Ukrainian). New York: The Carpathian Alliance. OCLC 17608529.
References
- ^ Magocsi, Paul Robert; Pop, Ivan I. (June 2002). Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture (book). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 237–238. ISBN 978-0-8020-3566-0. Retrieved 2009-06-23.
Hutsul Republic.
- ^ "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №74/2019 Про нагородження С.Клочурака орденом Свободи". president.gov.ua (in Ukrainian).