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July 20, 1888

Yulian Pavlykovsky, the leading organizer and ideologist of the Galician cooperative movement, was born in Senkiv, about 40 miles north of Lviv, on July 20, 1888. From 1915, after obtaining a degree in law from Lviv University and in agronomy from the Higher Agricultural School in Vienna, he worked at the Silskyi Hospodar society in Lviv as an inspector, organizer and chief of economic reconstruction, and later as its president (1924-1929).

Pavlykovsky held the post of chairman of the Provincial Committee for Organizing Cooperatives (1920-1921), president of the Audit Union of Ukrainian Cooperatives (1922-1944), chief director of the Narodna Torhovlia consumer cooperative (1923-1939), and sat on the board of directors of the Maslosoiuz dairy cooperative (1926-1939) and various other Ukrainian institutions.

Pavlykovsky represented the movement at international conferences and on Polish national bodies such as the State Co-operative Council in Warsaw and the Council of the Agricultural Chamber in Lviv.

One of the founders of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance Party, he served as its deputy leader (1930-1939), and was elected to two terms in the Polish Senate as its candidate (in 1930 and 1935).

In 1944, Pavlykovsky emigrated to Germany, eventually settling in Munich, where he taught at the Ukrainian Technical and Husbandry Institute and the Ukrainian Free University. He died in Munich on December 28, 1949.

Source: "Pavlykovsky, Yuliian," Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Vol. 3 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993).

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, July 14, 1996, No. 28, Vol. LXIV

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