Skrypa, Yosyp

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Skrypa, Yosyp (Скрипа, Йосип; pseudonym: Вронський; Vronsky) b 1 March 1894 in Siedliska, Zamość county, Poland, d 12 February 1929 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Civic and political activist in the Kholm region. After being evacuated to Baku during the First World War, he completed a pedagogical course and then returned to his home village to work as a teacher and organizer of farmers and youth groups. He was also vice-president of the Kholm National Committee. In 1922 he was elected to the Polish Sejm, where he belonged to the Ukrainian caucus (see Ukrainian Parliamentary Representation), then to a faction of the Ukrainian Social Democratic party, and finally to the Communist Party of Western Ukraine.

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



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