Career
Babij graduated from a high school in Tarnopol, then studied classical philology at the January Kazimierz University in LwóWest Later, he was a principal of a high school in Brzeżany, then, in 1931, took the post of principal of a Ukrainian high school in LwóWest He organized the Youth for Christ festival in western Ukraine.
Babij openly criticized the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which resulted in death sentence, passed by the Revolutionary Tribunal of the OUN. He was murdered by OUN"s activist Mykhaylo Carolina.