Antin Varivoda Explained

Antin Varivoda
Birth Date:10 January 1869
Birth Place:Siret, Austria-Hungary (now Romania)
Death Place:Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Branch:USS
UGA
Rank:Lieutenant Colonel
Colonel
Commands:Ukrainian Sich Riflemen
Ukrainian Galician Army

Antin Varivoda (Ukrainian: Анті́н Вариво́да|Antin Varyvoda) (10 January 1869 - 12 March 1936) was a Ukrainian Commander of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, and Colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army.

Biography

Varivoda was born in the city of Siret in Bukovina.[1]

He graduated from the Austrian officers' school. From the beginning of the First World War he led a sotnia in the Austrian army.

From 16 March to 30 September 1916 in the rank of colonel (oberstleutnant) in the Austro-Hungarian army, the commandant of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen.[2]

During the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918-1919) he was Colonel in the Ukrainian Galician Army. Appointed a member of the liquidation commission, he dealt with the return of Ukrainian soldiers from Austria and Italy to their homeland. In 1920 he commanded a brigade of interned Ukrainian Galician Army soldiers in Liberec (Czechoslovakia) and Jablonne (Germany).[3] [4]

He lived in Vienna, where he died on 12 March 1936.[3] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Starik, Vladimir. From Sarajevo to Paris. Bukovinian Interregnum 1914-1921. 152. 2009.
  2. [:s:Українські Січові Стрільці 1914-1920/Поіменний список боєвих відділів 1 полку Українських Січових Стрільців#Булавний відділ]
  3. Web site: ВАРИВОДА АНТІН. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. 25 June 2021. https://archive.today/20210625140348/http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Varyvoda_A. 25 June 2021.
  4. Web site: Варивода Антін. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. 25 June 2021.
  5. Book: Літопис Червоної калини. 23. Червоної калини (via Indiana University). 1935.