Stepan Klochurak

Stepan Klochurak
Stepan Klochurak during a meeting with Czechoslovak president Emil Hácha, 1939
Born(1895-02-27)27 February 1895
Kőrösmező, Austria-Hungary (now Yasinia, Ukraine)
Died8 February 1980(1980-02-08) (aged 84)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Resting place
Olšany Cemetery, Prague
Term1919 Prime Minister of the Hutsul Republic
Political party
Social Democratic (1920s)
Agrarian-Republican (1930s)
Ukrainian National Union (1939)

Stepan Klochurak (Rusyn and Ukrainian: Степан Клочурак) (27 February 1895 - 8 February 1980) was a Transcarpathian public activist, politician and lawyer. He was the Prime Minister of the short lived Hutsul Republic in 1919.[1]

Biography

Born in Yasinia, Máramaros County, Klochurak specialized in law, and in 1918-1919 became one of the organizers of the Hutsul Republic in his native settlement. After joining the Social democratic movement, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Vpered ("Forward") newspaper. Klochurak later joined the Ukrainian fraction of the Agrarian Party, and in 1934 became the editor of its printed publication Zemlia i Volia ("Land and Freedom").[2]

In 1939 Klochurak was elected member of parliament of Carpatho-Ukraine, and served as Minister of Defense. Later during that year he emigrated to Prague.[2] In 1945 he was arrested by NKVD and imprisoned in Gulag near Vorkuta until 1957. Klochurak died in 1980 in Prague.[2]

He is a relative of Halina Pawlowská.

Awards

Memoirs

Klochurak, Stepan (1978). Do Voli (Strive for freedom: memories) (book) (in Ukrainian). New York: The Carpathian Alliance. OCLC 17608529.

References

  1. ↑ Magocsi, Paul Robert; Pop, Ivan I. (June 2002). Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture (book). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 237–238. ISBN 978-0-8020-3566-0. Retrieved 2009-06-23. Hutsul Republic.
  2. 1 2 3 Енциклопедія українознавства. Словникова частина (ЕУ-II). Vol. 3. 1994. pp. 1043–1046.
  3. ↑ "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №74/2019 Про нагородження С.Клочурака орденом Свободи". president.gov.ua (in Ukrainian).
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