Dmytro Dmytrovych Vitovsky (Ukrainian: Дмитро Дмитрович Вітовський; 8 November 1887 – 2 or 4 August 1919) was a Ukrainian politician and military leader. Vitovsky was born into a family of gentry in the village of Medukha in Galicia (today in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion). He graduated from the Stanislau gymnasium and later was a student activist at the law school of Lviv University. Later Vitovsky joined the Ukrainian Radical Party and was an active organizer of a number of Ukrainian educational and scouting Sich groups near Stanislau, which later became part of the regular Galician Army. Vitovsky s
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Dmytro Dmytrovych Vitovsky (Ukrainian: Дмитро Дмитрович Вітовський; 8 November 1887 – 2 or 4 August 1919) was a Ukrainian politician and military leader. Vitovsky was born into a family of gentry in the village of Medukha in Galicia (today in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion). He graduated from the Stanislau gymnasium and later was a student activist at the law school of Lviv University. Later Vitovsky joined the Ukrainian Radical Party and was an active organizer of a number of Ukrainian educational and scouting Sich groups near Stanislau, which later became part of the regular Galician Army. Vitovsky started his active military career in 1914 participating in mountain battles in the Carpathians, and was an ideologist of Ukrainian military political thought. In 1916–1917 he was a Ukrainian military commissar in Volhynia, and organized Ukrainian schools there. Vitovsky also was co-founder of the Striletsky Found, and published the official newspaper of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, Shliakhy ('The Pathways'). He became a company commander of the Legion of Sich Riflemen and carried out special assignments (guerrilla warfare). When in 1915, after Austro-Hungarian forces reconquered the city of Halych, "out of patriotic feelings" as he said himself, Vitovsky hung the Ukrainian flag on top of the…
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Personal life Shortly after being wounded in battle in 1916, Vitovsky married Maria Lishchynska. Their son, also named Dmytro, would become a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
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Гай-Нижник П. Доставка для уряду Директорії українських грошей з Німеччини і загибель Д.Вітовського (1919 р.) // Гуржіївські історичні читання: Збірник наукових праць. – Черкаси, 2009. – С.290–294
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Sources Lviv Study. Handbook. / Compiler group manager N.Vynnytska.- Lviv: AHIL, 2003.- 52 p. ISBN 966-7617-59-9
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External links Vitovsky, Dmytro in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993)
