Piasetsky, Andrii

Piasetsky, Andrii [П’ясецький, Андрій; Pjasec'kyj, Andrij], b 27 August 1909 in Reklynets, Zhovkva county, Galicia, d 25 November 1942 in Lviv. Forester, community figure, and an active member of Plast Ukrainian Youth Association. A graduate in forestry engineering from the Lviv Polytechnical Institute, he was appointed inspector of forests in the Lviv archeparchy by Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky in 1935. Before the Second World War he purchased 150 ha of forests in Lozyna, near Yaniv, near Horodok (Lviv region), for a Ukrainian forestry research station. During the Soviet occupation he taught in the forestry department of the Lviv Polytechnical Institute (1939–41). In 1941 he was a member of the Ukrainian State Administration in Lviv. During the German occupation he published a work on the building and biological development of Ukrainian forests (1942), founded and ran a forestry institute, and acquired the Yaniv research station for it. He was arrested and shot by the Gestapo.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]