Background
He was the son of a Greek Catholic priest.
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Stepan Shukhevych
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Education
He completed school at the Academic Gymnasium in Lviv, and then the Faculty of Law at the Lviv University.
Career
With the commencement of World War I he took part in the formation of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (United States Ship) as an otaman (equivalent to a major). From 1914-1916 he had a number of commands in the Legion (United States Ship), and then (1918–1919) in the Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA). Commandant of Odessa in 1918.
After the war he returned to his legal practice.
From 1921–1925 he was a professor of criminal law at the Lviv University, and took the cases in defense of Ukrainians who were arrested and charged by the Polish government in anti-Polish activities. Shukhevych was one of the organizers of the "Chervona kalyna" publishing house, publishing materials about the history of the Ukrainian War of Independence.
At the commencement of the World World War II he moved to Crakow where he continued his legal practice. Author of a number of memoirs about the history of the anti-Polish movement in Galicia.
Uncle of Roman Shukhevych.
