Yurii Shukhevych

Yurii-Bohdan Romanovych Shukhevych
Юрій-Богдан Романович Шухевич
Shukhevych in 2010
Head of Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence
In office
December 1990 – August 1994
In office
October 2006 – October 2014
People's Deputy of Ukraine
8th convocation
In office
27 November 2014[1] – 29 July 2019
ConstituencyRadical Party, No.5[2]
Personal details
Born(1933-03-28)28 March 1933
Ohladów, Lwów Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic (now Ukraine)
Died22 November 2022(2022-11-22) (aged 89)
Munich, Germany
Resting placeLychakiv Cemetery, Lviv
Political partyRadical Party
Other political
affiliations		Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence (December 1990 till October 2014)
AwardsHero of Ukraine Order of the State

Yurii-Bohdan Romanovych Shukhevych (Ukrainian: Ю́рій-Богда́н Рома́нович Шухе́вич, 28 March 1933 – 22 November 2022)[3] was a Ukrainian far-right politician. A member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, he was a political prisoner and the son of Roman Shukhevych. He was a long-serving leader of the Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence.[4] Shukhevych spent over 30 years in the Soviet prisons and concentration camps.[5] In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shukhevych was elected into the Ukrainian parliament for Radical Party.[6]

  1. ^ CEC registers 357 newly elected deputies of 422 Archived 4 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, National Radio Company of Ukraine (25 November 2014)
    Parliament to form leadership and coalition on November 27, UNIAN (26 November 2014)
  2. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIII convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  3. ^ Умер Герой Украины Юрий Шухевич (in Russian)
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference LBbio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith by Andrew Wilson, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0521574579 (page 276)
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Olszanski again BE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).