Fediv, Ihor

Fediv, Ihor [Федів, Ігор], b 8 September 1895 in Kolomyia, Galicia, d 12 March 1962 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Community figure, geographer, teacher, publisher, and publicist. Fediv was active in student life in Vienna and Prague, becoming head of the Central Union of Ukrainian Students (1923–4). In 1929 he settled in Lviv, where he became an associate publisher of Ukraïns'ka zahal'na entsyklopediia (Ukrainian General Encyclopedia) and a member of the board of the Ukrainian Publishing Institute. From 1940 to 1945 he was a director of the Ukrainske Vydavnytstvo (Cracow) publishers in Cracow and Lviv. As an émigré he lived in Germany, Tunis, and, from 1951, in Montreal. Fediv published articles on geography, particularly on the Black Sea, and was co-author of the adaptation of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the novel Syn Ukraïny (Son of Ukraine, 1919).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]