Mariia Biletska, sometimes ''Maria Biletska'' (1864 – 30 December 1937) was a Ukrainian teacher. She ran a house in Lviv, where students could stay. She was a leader of the women's movement.

Life

Biletska was born in 1864 in Ternopil. In 1899, she and Hermina Shukhevych ran the Institute of St. Olga. The institute provided a place for girls to live while they attended education in Lviv. About half of these girls came from peasant families. In 1912 she attended a meeting organised by Konstantyna Malytska for the "Women's Committee" in Lviv to prepare for war. Others at the meeting were Olena Zalizniak (1886-1969),

Olena Stepaniv Olena Ivanivna Stepaniv (; 7 December 1892 – 11 July 1963; also Olena Iwaniwna Stepaniw, Yelena Ivanovna Stepaniv, and Olena Stepaniw-Daschkewytsch) was an Austro-Hungarian and Ukrainian soldier, public figure and economist. She is popularly ...

and

Olha Basarab Olha Basarab ( uk, Ольга Михайлівна Басараб; 1 September 1889 – 12 February 1924) was a Ukrainian political activist and member of the Ukrainian Military Organization who conducted both charitable and humanitarian work that ...

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

Ukrainian Sich Riflemen Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (german: Ukrainische Sitschower Schützen; uk, Українські cічові стрільці (УСС), translit=Ukraïnski sichovi stril’tsi (USS)) was a Ukrainian unit within the Austro-Hungarian Army d ...

. Stepaniv would serve in that group as a rifleman. She became the Chair of the Ukrainian Women's Union in 1921 for a year. The following year, she left the St Olga Institute. From 1925 to 1926 she was caring for people with disabilities. Biletska died in Lviv in 1938.

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