Olena Ivanivna Stepaniv was an Austro-Hungarian and Ukrainian soldier, public figure and economist. She is popularly known as the first female officer in the Ukrainian army.
Stepaniv in Ukrainian Sich Riflemen uniform
A used postcard showing USS officers Zenon Noskovskyi, Olena Stepaniv, Ivan Chmola, Osyp Yarymovych, and Sofia Halechko on Mount Makivka
Olena Stepaniv's grave in Lviv
Stepanivny Street in Lviv in 2013
Yaroslav Ivan Romanovych Dashkevych was a Ukrainian historian, archaeographer and Armenologist. He wrote over 1,700 scholarly and publicist works. He was a representative of Hrushevsky's school of his
Olena Stepaniv
…would later become a lawyer and a general-khorunzhyi (general-ensign) of the Ukrainian People's Army. The couple married in 1920. In 1926, their son, Yaroslav Dashkevych, was born. Stepaniv's life has been depicted in fictionalized biographies…
Dashkevych in Lviv, late 1980s