Sozontiv, Symon [Созонтів, Симон], b 20 July 1898 in Lahery, Zmiiv county, Kharkiv gubernia, d 17 March 1980 in Dammartin-sur-Tigeaux, France. Political and community activist in France. He served as a captain in the Army of the Ukrainian National Republic, was interned in Poland (see Internment camps), and in 1923 emigrated to Czechoslovakia. He graduated with a degree in engineering from the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady in 1927 and then moved to France, where he set up a rubber factory. He headed the Government-in-exile of the Ukrainian National Republic (1954–5) and several Ukrainian organizations in France, including the Ukrainian Community Aid in France (1946–54), the Ukrainian Central Civic Committee in France (1948–69), and the executive branch of the Ukrainian National Council (1948–54). He founded the Hromada Franco-Ukrainian publishing house, which was active in 1948–56, and was the publisher of Vil'na Ukraïna and L’Ukraine libre (1953–4) in Paris.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]