Moralevych, Yakiv

Moralevych, Yakiv [Моралевич, Яків; Moralevyč, Jakiv], b 30 April 1878 in eastern Podilia, d 1 November 1961 in Denver, Colorado, USA. Economist and civic figure. A graduate of the Kamianets-Podilskyi Theological seminary, he worked as a teacher and then studied at the Psychoneurological Institute in Saint Petersburg. From 1914 he worked for the Union of Zemstvos and Cities in Kyiv and studied at the Kyiv Commercial Institute. He was chief accountant for the Ukrainian National Republic Ministry of Trade and Industry and, later, director of the ministry’s finance department and the economic ministry’s general department. An émigré from 1920, he taught commercial subjects in Army of the Ukrainian National Republic internment camps in Poland and Bohemia and at the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy (1922–35) and Ukrainian Technical and Husbandry Institute (UTHI, 1932–44) in Poděbrady. The academy published his commercial arithmetic (1924), finance (1924), and general accounting (1925) textbooks. He was also active in the League of Ukrainian Nationalists and the co-operative movement in Transcarpathia and became chief comptroller of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in 1929. A postwar refugee in Bavaria, he continued teaching at the UTHI in Regensburg and then emigrated to the United States of America (1949), where he taught at the Ukrainian Technical Institute (1954–6) in New York.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]