Boikiv, Oleksander

Boikiv, Oleksander [Бойків, Олександер; Bojkiv], b 28 August 1896 in Ispas, Kolomyia county, Galicia, d 29 September 1968 in Paris. Political and community figure, publicist. As an émigré Boikiv lived in Prague, Geneva, and Paris. In the 1920s he was active in student affairs, heading the Ukrainian Academic Hromada in Prague and taking part in the activities of the Central Union of Ukrainian Students. In the 1930s he served as secretary of the leadership (PUN) of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists under Colonel Yevhen Konovalets. Boikiv was the last president of the Ukrainian National Union in France (1943–4), a founding member and vice-president of the Ukrainian National Alliance in France, and the first editor of the newspaper Ukraïns’ke slovo (Paris) in 1933–4. A biography, by Volodymyr Maruniak, was published in 1986.

[This article was updated in 2005.]