Yuriy Lypa, born May 5, 1900 in Odessa (alternatively – in Stari Sanzhary in Poltava region) as a young man involved in the liberation struggle of the Ukrainian people in the Haidamatsky Division, as well as the launch of the Marine Corps of the UPR Armed Forces. He studied medicine at the University of Poznan (1922 - 1929), and at the same time conducted social and political work among students – Ukrainians in the secret society organized by him – the Black Sea corporation. He acts as a spokesman for the European integration of Ukraine and its religious unity. Author of poetic collections «Excellency», «Harshness», and others, the novel «Cossacks in Muscovy» (191934), collections of storys «Notebook». The great belief in the supreme idea of Ukraine, its traditions, spiritual strength, orientation towards Europe, work on its own style, struggle again provincialism, Little Russian witchcraft and tearful lyricism are the basic slogans and principles that young writers created. Interspersed with these ideas, overflowing with the spirit of struggle for the Ukrainian idea, in 1931 the second collection of poems of Yuri Lypa with such a characteristic name – «Harshness» appeared. «The Appointment of Ukraine» (1938), «The Black Sea Doctrine» (1940), and «The Distribution of Russia» (1941), which outline the current principles and directions of Ukrainian geopolitics. He was co-creator of the Ukrainian Black Sea Emigration Institute in Warsaw, a scientific institution to study the political and economic problems facing Ukraine after independence. While in emigration he thoroughly studied phytotherapy, published a number of articles and textbooks on phytotherapy, a number of his works are cited in Polish works to this day. In 1943 he moved to Yavoriv near Lviv, where he worked as a doctor and trained sanitary personnel for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, assisting the soldiers of that army as a battalion doctor (colonel). Arguably arrested and savagely murdered by Soviet special services on August 20, 1944. This publication covers the history of honoring the memory of Yuri Lypa by Lviv physicians, his activities as a phytotherapist, and his collaboration with Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky.
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