Antin Varivoda

Varivoda was born in the city of Siret in Bukovina.^[1][2]

He graduated from the Austrian officers' school. From the beginning of the First World War he led a sotnia in the Austrian army.^[2]

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.^[3][2]

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).^[2][4]

He lived in Vienna, where he died on 12 March 1936.^[2][5]