Petro Franko
| Petro Ivanovych Franko Петро Іванович Франко |
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June 21, 1890 Nahuievychi, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | June 28, 1941 (aged 51) Ternopil Oblast, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Scientist, writer, and politician |
| Ethnicity | Ukrainian |
Petro Ivanovych Franko (Ukrainian: Петро Іванович Франко) (1890–1941) son of the Ukrainian writer Ivan Franko, was a Ukrainian educator, pedagogue, writer, ethnographer, scientist, military leader, and politician. Franko was a co-founder of the Plast, a Ukrainian Scouting Organization and a former member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.
Born as his father in the village of Nahuyevychi of Drohobych powiat (Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) on June 21, 1890, he graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute. He loved singing. Until World War I Franko was a teacher in a Ukrainian gymnasium in Lemberg. During that time he published a book Plast's games (Пластові ігри та забави). From 1914 he served in the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen where commanded a company (sotnia) as a poruchik (poruchnyk). In 1918 he organized an aviation school of the Ukrainian Galician Army Command Center which was active until 1920.
Later worked as a teacher in Kolomea (Poland). From 1931-1936 he worked as a chemical engineer in the scientific-research institute in Kharkiv (Soviet Union). During that time, he became an author of 36 patented inventions. Before World War II, he lectured at the Lwow trade-economic institute as well as in the city of Jaworow (again in Poland). In 1940, he was elected as a deputy to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic's Verkhovna Rada.
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