Kulytsky, Mykola

Kulytsky, Mykola [Кулицький, Микола; Kulyc'kyj], b 1903 in Hlyniany, Peremyshliany county, Galicia, d 26 May 1970 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Cartographer and geographer. He studied at Cracow University and in the 1930s and 1940s helped Volodymyr Kubijovyč prepare various maps and his atlas of Ukraine. During the Second World War he directed the cartography and statistics office of the Ukrainian Central Committee in Cracow and Lviv. A postwar refugee and displaced person, he received a PH D from the Ukrainian Free University and was a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He emigrated to the United States of America and settled in Chicago in the early 1950s.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]