Bilynsky, Andrii [Білинський, Андрій; Bilyns'kyj, Andrij], b 14 April 1916 in Chernivtsi, Bukovyna, d 12 November 1995 in Munich, Germany. Jurist, student of Soviet law, publicist. Bilynsky was arrested in Poland in 1934 and 1939 as a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. He served in the Division Galizien, was taken prisoner in 1944, and spent several years in Soviet labor camps for being a Ukrainian political activist. In 1955 he was deported to Germany. In 1961 he became an associate of the Institut für Ostrecht and, from 1967, he taught Soviet economic law at the University of Munich. Bilynsky published more than 100 studies, articles, and reviews, primarily in German journals. His major publications are Die Organisation der sowjetischen Anwaltschaft (1958), Das sowjetische Eherecht (1961), and Das sowjetische Wirtschaftsrecht (1968). His Ukrainian-language books include a book of memoirs V kontstaborakh SRSR (In the Concentration Camps of the USSR, 1961), the political treatise Svit i my (The World and We, 1963), and the study Hromads'ki orhanizatsiï v SRSR (Civic Organizations in the USSR, 1969). As a journalist and publicist Bilynsky published articles in the Chicago newspaper Ukraïns’ke zhyttia (Chicago) criticizing émigré Ukrainian political programs and policies and stressing the need for a ‘constructive attitude’ to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

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