Leonid Stupnytskyi

Leonid Venedyktovych Stupnytskyi (10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1891 – 30 July 1944) was a Ukrainian Insurgent Army officer. He was born in a peasant family. His father, Venedikt, was friends with leading figures of Ukrainian culture, visited Tadei Rylsky, and was interested in the ideas of narodniks. In his childhood, Leonid was friends with Maksym Rylsky. He graduated from high school in Skvyra and then from the agronomy faculty of Kyiv University. During World War I, he was drafted into the Russian army and commanded a mounted unit with the rank of captain. After graduating from school, he served in the 8th and 12th (from November 29, 1915) reserve battalions. In the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic During the liberation struggles of 1917-1921, he was a lieutenant colonel of the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic. In the Ukrainian army from 1918, in 1920 he was a regiment commander in the Volhynian division.