Kulachkovsky, Yaroslav [Кулачковський, Ярослав; Kulačkovs'kyj, Jaroslav], b 20 April 1863 in Borshchiv, Galicia, d 7 September 1909 in Lviv. Economist, lawyer, and community activist in Galicia. He was founder and director of the Dnister Insurance Company (1892–1909) and of the Dnister Co-operative Bank. In 1898 he helped found the Provincial Credit Union and later the Audit Union of Ukrainian Co-operatives, the main organizational center of the Ukrainian co-operative movement.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]