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Hrytsko Chuprynka

Died in 1921

Hrytsko Chuprynka was born in November 1879 in Hoholiv, in the province of Chernihiv, into a Cossack family. Expelled from the gymnasiums of Lubny and Kyiv, he was imprisoned for his part in the revolution of 1905 and lived in Kyiv from 1910. In 1917 he served in the Bohdan Khmelnytsky regiment; in 1919 he led an uprising against the Bolsheviks in the Chernihiv region. Arrested by the Kyiv Cheka on 23 June 1921 as a member of the central committee of the insurgents, he was shot on 28 August 1921. Roman Shukhevych took his name as his nom de guerre.

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