Starukh, Antin

Starukh, Antin [Старух, Антін; Starux], b 30 August 1856 in Berezhnytsia Vyzhnia, Lisko county, Galicia, d 9 January 1938 in Berezhnytsia Vyzhnia. Farmer and civic and political activist; brother of Tymofei Starukh. He was elected as a candidate of the National Democratic party to the Galician Diet in 1901 and 1908. In 1918–19 he sat on the Ukrainian National Rada of the Western Ukrainian National Republic and served as commissioner of Lisko county.

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