Ukrainian Venezuelans
{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = {{flagicon|UKR}} Ukrainian Venezuelans {{flagicon|VEN}}
Ucraniano-Venezolano
Венесуельські українці
| image =
| caption =
| population = 10,000
| popplace = Mainly Caracas and others.
| langs = Spanish (Venezuelan Spanish), Ukrainian
| rels = Mostly Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox
| related = Ukrainian diaspora,
Ukrainian Brazilians, Ukrainian Argentines, Ukrainians in Mexico
}}
Ukrainian Venezuelans are Venezuelans of Ukrainian heritage. The Ukrainian diaspora increased after 1945 due to a second wave of political emigrants. In the latter half of the 1940s and early 1950s, these Ukrainians were resettled in many different countries creating new Ukrainian settlements in Australia and Venezuela. In Venezuela the population is estimated to be around 10,000 Ukrainians.{{cite web|url=http://www.joshuaproject.net/people-profile.php?peo3=15696&rog3=VE|title= Ukrainian of Venezuela|access-date=22 October 2012}}
Notable people
- Ivan Belsky (1923-2003), painter and graphic artist.{{cite web |url=http://vereda.ula.ve/wiki_artevenezolano/index.php/Belsky,_Iv%C3%A1n |title=Belsky, Iván |language=es |website=University of the Andes |first=Carlos |last=Maldonado Bourgoin |access-date=14 May 2018}}
- Lya Imber, (Odesa, Ukraine, 1914 - Caracas, 1981), the first woman in Venezuela to obtain the degree of Doctor of Medicine (Paediatrics & Child Care Specialist) and the first female member of the board of the Medical School of the Federal District.
- Sofia Imber, journalist.
- {{Interlanguage link|Aniuska A. Kazandjian|es}}, botanist and university professor.
- Stefanía Fernández Krupij, beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Venezuela 2008 and Miss Universe 2009 titles. She earned a Guinness record by being the first Miss Universe winner who was crowned by a compatriot.[http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_Most-consecutive-wins-of-the-Miss-Universe-contest/blog/870434/7691.html Most consecutive wins of the Miss Universe contest]. Community.guinnessworldrecords.com (2009-09-30). Retrieved on 2012-05-12.{{Cite news|url=http://www.eluniversal.com/2009/08/23/til_ava_stefania-fernandez-g_23A2651327.shtml |title=Stefanía Fernández gana el Miss Universo y Venezuela repite |work=El Universal |location=Caracas, Venezuela |language=es |author=Norma Jiménez Montealegre |date=August 23, 2009 |access-date=2009-08-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827150539/http://www.eluniversal.com/2009/08/23/til_ava_stefania-fernandez-g_23A2651327.shtml |archive-date=August 27, 2009 }}
- Vasyl Krychevsky, was a painter, architect, art scholar, graphic artist, and master of applied art and decorative art.
== See also ==
{{Portal|Ukraine|Venezuela}}
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Ukrainian diaspora}}
{{Ethnic groups in Venezuela}}
{{Portal bar|Ukraine|Venezuela}}