Konstantyna Ivanivna Malytska or Rastyk; Vira Lebedova; Chaika Dnistrova ( uk, Костянтина Іванівна Малицька; 30 May 1872 – 17 March 1947) was a Ukrainian educator, writer, and activist.

Biography

Malytska was born in Kropyvnyk in

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in 1872. She studied to be a teacher and graduated in 1892. She taught elementary education in Halych,

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, and Lviv at the Shevchenko Girls' School. In 1912, she organized a meeting for the "Women's Committee" in Lviv to prepare for the war that she saw as inevitable. Others at the meeting were

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(1864-1937) and

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. The money raised from the "National Combat Fund", they created, was used to fund the

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. and Stepaniv would be its first female officer. In 1938, the

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declared the Ukrainian Women's Union illegal. As a result, another women's organization, the ''Druzhyna Kniahyni Olhy'' (Friends of Princess Ohla), was formed and Marytska became one of its leaders. The organisation's new existence was brief, as it disappeared when the Soviets occupied

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in 1939. In the summer of 1941, she initiated the founding of the Women's Service of Ukraine society and headed it until September 1941.

Writing

Malytska wrote children's plays, songs, and magazine contributions. In 1899, she published

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in ''Mali druzi'' (''Little Friends'', 1899, 1906) and her articles about education in ''Maty'' (''Mother'', 1902) and ''Z trahedii dytiachykh dush'' (''From the Tragedies of Children's Souls'', 1907).

Death

Malytska died in Lviv in 1947.

References

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