Stepan Klochurak
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Born27 February 1895
Died8 February 1980 (aged 84)
Resting place
Olšany Cemetery, PragueTerm1919 Prime Minister of the Hutsul Republic
Stepan Klochurak | |
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Stepan Klochurak during a meeting with Czechoslovak president Emil Hácha, 1939 | |
| Born | 27 February 1895 |
| Died | 8 February 1980 (aged 84) |
Resting place | Olšany Cemetery, Prague |
| Term | 1919 Prime Minister of the Hutsul Republic |
Political party | Social Democratic (1920s) Agrarian-Republican (1930s) Ukrainian National Union (1939) |
Stepan Klochurak (Rusyn: Степан Клочурак) (27 February 1895 - 8 February 1980) was a Rusyn-Ukrainian social-democratic and agrarian politician and lawyer. He was the Prime Minister of the short lived Hutsul Republic in 1919.[1] In 1939, in the same general area, he was the Minister of Defense of Carpatho-Ukraine. In 1945 he was arrested by NKVD and imprisoned in Gulag near Vorkuta until 1957. He is a relative of Halina Pawlowská.