Stefaniv, Klym

Stefaniv, Klym [Стефанів, Клим], b 11 March 1890 in Toporivtsi, Horodenka county, Galicia, d 19 February 1963 in Yablunka, Bohorodchany raion, Ivano-Frankivsk oblast. Galician civic figure; brother of Hnat Stefaniv and Zenon Stefaniv. A former village teacher in Zalishchyky county and an officer in the Ukrainian Galician Army, after the First World War he was active in the Galician co-operative movement and Prosvita society, represented the Ukrainian Socialist Radical party in the Polish Sejm (1928–30), and served as a scribe and a rural district official in Porohy, Nadvirna county. Under Soviet rule he worked as a teacher in Yablunka until 1957.

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