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Bilobram Osip

1856-1933

Osyp Bilobram (* 1856-1933) was a Ukrainian public and educational figure, conductor.

Biography.
In Staryi Sambir, he was one of the founders of Prosvita and the Sokil sports society, and the organiser of the Boyan choir.

At his suggestion, a spiritual orchestra was also founded in the city, and he took a direct part in religious and national holidays, organising many of them.

During the First World War, he was arrested by the Russian military and exiled to the Tomsk province, where he remained in exile from 1914 to 1917.

After returning from the north, he joined the Ukrainian military forces, led the UGA military orchestra, and on his initiative, a mountain brigade of Sich Riflemen, the Staryi Sambir Brigade, was formed in Staryi Sambir. The brigade later became part of the Third Corps of the UGA, and his son Kornilo was a corporal in it.

After the occupation of Galicia by the Poles, he left for Czechoslovakia. In 1921, he returned and continued to work in the field of education.

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