Antin Varivoda

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Antin Varivoda ({{langx|uk|Анті́н Вариво́да|Antin Varyvoda}}) (10 January 1869 - 12 March 1936) was a Ukrainian Commander of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, and Colonel of the Ukrainian Galician Army.

Biography

Varivoda was born in the city of Siret in Bukovina.{{cite book|author= Starik, Vladimir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OU25EJvGaAAC|title=From Sarajevo to Paris. Bukovinian Interregnum 1914-1921|page=152|publisher= |year=2009|isbn=}}

He graduated from the Austrian officers' school. From the beginning of the First World War he led a sotnia in the Austrian army.

From 16 March to 30 September 1916 in the rank of colonel (oberstleutnant) in the Austro-Hungarian army, the commandant of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen.:s:Українські Січові Стрільці 1914-1920/Поіменний список боєвих відділів 1 полку Українських Січових Стрільців#Булавний відділ

During the Polish-Ukrainian War (1918-1919) he was Colonel in the Ukrainian Galician Army. Appointed a member of the liquidation commission, he dealt with the return of Ukrainian soldiers from Austria and Italy to their homeland. In 1920 he commanded a brigade of interned Ukrainian Galician Army soldiers in Liberec (Czechoslovakia) and Jablonne (Germany).{{cite web|title=ВАРИВОДА АНТІН|url=http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Varyvoda_A|publisher=Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine|access-date=25 June 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210625140348/http://resource.history.org.ua/cgi-bin/eiu/history.exe?&I21DBN=EIU&P21DBN=EIU&S21STN=1&S21REF=10&S21FMT=eiu_all&C21COM=S&S21CNR=20&S21P01=0&S21P02=0&S21P03=TRN=&S21COLORTERMS=0&S21STR=Varyvoda_A|archive-date=25 June 2021}}{{cite web|title=Варивода Антін|url=http://esu.com.ua/search_articles.php?id=33175|publisher=Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine|access-date=25 June 2021|archive-url=|archive-date=}}

He lived in Vienna, where he died on 12 March 1936.{{cite book|author=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajQqAQAAMAAJ|title=Літопис Червоної калини|page=23|publisher=Червоної калини (via Indiana University)|year=1935|isbn=}}

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