Ukrainian civil servant, financier, conductor, public figure. Repressed, executed without trial according to a secret resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) of 5.3.1940.
Biography
He was born on May 29, 1879 in the village of Lyashky Murovani (Kingdom of Galicia and Volhynia, Austria-Hungary, now the village of Murovane, Pustomyty district, Lviv region, Ukraine) in the family of a village teacher Mykhailo Siyak, who retired as the director of the Borys Dmytrovych Hrinchenko School in Lviv. He graduated from a gymnasium and a technical school in Lviv.
Since 1904 he lived in Buchach. At first he worked as a postal worker, and in 1908, after the formation of the district branch of the All-Ukrainian Society "Prosvita", he became the head of the economic section. He was one of the organizers of the first trade and cash courses in Buchach (March 27-April 15, 1911). As a financier, he proved himself to be the director of the county savings and loan society "Labor". For a short time, he was the conductor of the Student Union Choir in Buchach. He was one of the leaders of the district branch of the Ukrainian society Sokil.
During the First World War, he was the director of the county cashier's office "Labor," the head of the branch of the society "Farmer," and the director of the county economic and trade union. Thanks to his positions, he defended the interests of the Ukrainian community in the county before the occupation authorities. After the withdrawal of Russian troops, he resumed the activities of the "Sielskyi Hospodar". There are also allegations that he was the head of the UVO in the Ternopil Voivodeship.
After the formation of the ZUNR, he first worked in the Buchach district commissariat (administration), and from the end of November 1918 - in the communication commission of the UNR Council of the ZUNR. At the end of 1918, he became a delegate to the Ukrainian National Council of the ZUNR from Buchach. Together with the government of the ZUNR he was in Kamianets-Podilskyi, and in the spring of 1920 he was an employee of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
After returning from Kamianets-Podilskyi, he was arrested by the Polish occupation authorities. He refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Polish authorities after the annexation of the ZUNR, and devoted much time to the national and economic revival of the district.
He organized the resumption of the activity of the "Labor" society in 1921, the first postwar cooperative courses in Buchach (March 1922). He assisted the district organization of Plast until its activities were banned in 1924. He was the head of the district branch of the Sokil Society in the postwar years. On August 24, 1924, at the constituent assembly of the "Poviat Union Cooperative (PSC)" he was elected its director.
From the beginning of 1926 he lived in Ternopil. He worked at Ukrayinbank, Podilsky Union Cooperative; headed the district branch of the Sokil Society, was active in the Native School, in other Ukrainian organizations, in particular, as the head of the local Boyan Society and its co-conductor. He was the head of the Ternopil district organization of the UNDO.
Arrested by the Bolsheviks in October 1939, according to the collection Buchach and Buchachchyna, he was exiled, where he died. According to Ternopil local historians, he was shot without trial by a secret resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) on March 5, 1940.
Family.
He was married to Ivanna, the daughter of a Greek Catholic priest, the parish priest of the town of Barysh, Fr. Children: Daria, Oksana (married to Levko Shchur), Olena (married to Myron Bordun).
