Dr. Oleksander Tysovsky ( uk, Олександер Тисовський alternately Oleksandr Tysowskyj) (August 9, 1886 – March 29, 1968), pseudonym: "Drot", founded the Ukrainian Scouting organization

Plast The Plast National Scout Organization of Ukraine ( uk, Пласт Національна Скаутська Організація України, ''Plast Natsionalna Skautska Orhanizatsiia Ukrayiny''), commonly called Ukrainian Plast or simply P ...

in 1911 and adapted the universal Scout principles to the needs and interests of

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youth. In 1944 he emigrated to

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. He became involved in Plast in exile, as well, and took part in a camp celebrating the 45th anniversary of Plast in ''Plastova Sich'' in

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in 1957. He died in Vienna 1968 and was buried in Vienna. He was reburied in the famous

Lychakivskiy Cemetery Lychakiv Cemetery ( uk, Личаківський цвинтар, translit=Lychakivs’kyi tsvyntar; pl, Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie), officially State History and Culture Museum-Preserve "Lychakiv Cemetery" ( uk, Державний істор ...

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in 2002.

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* Yurchuk, Deanna
"Plast founder Dr. Oleksander Tysovsky reburied at Lviv's Lychakiv Cemetery"
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'', 2002-10-13, URL retrieved 2007-01-03. Scouting pioneers 1886 births 1968 deaths Ukrainian emigrants to Austria Scouting and Guiding in Ukraine Soviet emigrants to Austria Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria {{ukraine-bio-stub

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