Stefaniv, Zenon

Stefaniv, Zenon [Стефанів, Зенон], b 22 July 1902 in Toporivtsi, Horodenka county, Galicia, d 1976 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Military historian and journalist; brother of Hnat Stefaniv and Klym Stefaniv. After joining the Ukrainian Galician Army in 1918, he served in signal communications and became a platoon commander in the machine-gun company of the Uhniv Brigade of the Ukrainian Galician Army. After the First World War he studied political science and worked as a journalist and an editor of Zhyttia Pokuttia. During the Second World War he served as captain in the Ukrainian National Army, and after the war he settled in the United States of America. He wrote a book of memoirs, Vid Slov’ians'ka do Tukholi (From Sloviansk to Tuchola, 1935), and Ukraïns'ki zbroini syly 1917–1921 rr. (Ukrainian Armed Forces in 1917–21, 3 parts, 1934–5) and contributed to Istoriia ukraïns'koho Viis'ka (History of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 1936).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]