Stepan Klochurak

Stepan Klochurak
Stepan Klochurak during a meeting with Czechoslovak president Emil Hácha, 1939
Born(1895-02-27)27 February 1895
Kőrösmező, Austria-Hungary (now Yasinia, Ukraine)
Died8 February 1980(1980-02-08) (aged 84)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Resting placeOlšany Cemetery, Prague
Term1919 Prime Minister of the Hutsul Republic
Political partySocial Democratic (1920s)
Agrarian-Republican (1930s)
Ukrainian National Union (1939)

Stepan Klochurak (Rusyn: Степан Клочурак) (27 February 1895 - 8 February 1980) was a Rusyn-Ukrainian social-democratic and agrarian politician and lawyer. He was the Prime Minister of the short lived Hutsul Republic in 1919. In 1939, in the same general area, he was the Minister of Defense of Carpatho-Ukraine. In 1945 he was arrested by NKVD and imprisoned in Gulag near Vorkuta until 1957. He is a relative of Halina Pawlowská.

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