Lototska, Olena [Лотоцька, Олена; Lotoc'ka; née Folys], b 23 May 1894 in Liubycha Kniazie, Rava-Ruska county, Galicia, d 2 December 1975 in Albany, New York State, USA. Activist of the women's movement. She emigrated to the United States of America with her first husband, Rev V. Dovbushovsky, in 1912, and after his death married Volodymyr Lototsky. She was a founder and longtime president (1931–4, 1943–65) of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America. She was also the moving force behind the convening of the First Ukrainian Women’s Congress in America (1932), the founding of the journal Nashe zhyttia/Our Life (1944), and the organizing of the 1948 World Congress of Ukrainian Women in Philadelphia, which gave rise to the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations. She served as vice-president and then president (1969–72) of the federation and helped organize the Second World Congress of Ukrainian Women in 1959. She maintained contacts with various international women’s associations and attended international women’s conferences in Washington, DC (1925), Helsinki (1954), Montreal (1957), and Paris (1958).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]