Zhukovskyi Ivan Yevhenovych (04. 03. 1901, the town of Kitsman, now the city of Chernivtsi region - 04. 12. 1980, New York) - architect, conductor, public figure. Son of E. Zhukovsky. Corresponding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1972).
He graduated from the Moscow State University. Graduated from the Moscow Polytechnic (1926), at the same time studied conducting and composition at the Moscow Conservatory. He worked in the architectural department of Prague. In 1929 he returned to Bukovyna. In 1930 he opened an architectural bureau in Chernivtsi. He was the head of the Society of Ukrainian Engineers in Romania (1931-41). According to the project and under the direction of Zh. the theatre hall with a stage in the Ukrainian National House in Chernivtsi was rebuilt. He took an active part in Ukrainian public life: member of the Academy of Cossacks "Chornomore", "Kobzar", "Ukrainian Book Library"; member and general secretary of the Ukrainian National Party in Bukovyna; director of the "Men's Choir" in Chernivtsi (1940-41), artistic director of the professional theatre and choir in Kitsman. Later he moved to Germany.
From 1949 he lived in New York. From 1950 - music referee, member of the music commission, conductor of the orchestra (1955), director of the women's choir "Dumka" (1959-60), conductor of the choir "Boyan" (1959). In 1957-61, he was a professor, dean of the architectural department of the Ukrainian Technical Institute. He was the chairman of the Society of Ukrainian Engineers of America (1954-80), the Centre for the Association of Bukovinian Ukrainians in the United States (1954-73), and the Literary and Artistic Club (1972-77).
He designed churches in New York: St. John the Baptist UGCC (Hunter), St. Peter and Paul (Glen-Spey), St. Protection (Rochester, Roma) UOC; New Jersey: St. George the Victorious UOC (Trenton); a monument in honour of those who died for the freedom of Ukraine (Glen-Spey). Author of Ukrainian-German technical dictionaries (Berlin, 1943; Breslaw, 1944; Leipzig, 1945); prefaces and articles to the collection "Orest Rusnak: His Life" (New York, 1971); a number of professional articles in the journal "Bukovyna, Svoboda, etc.
