He studied law at Lviv University, where he attended Mykhailo Hrushevskyi's first course of lectures on the history of Eastern Europe.

[1][2][4] In the 1940s, the German occupation authorities of Lviv sent him and his wife Jadwiga to forced labor in Germany, where he worked as a civilian judge in Chemnitz.

[1] Holubovskyi dedicated two novels to his friend Oleksa Novakivskyi: "Bohy za odnym stolom" (2001, Dzvin), "Rozmakhom mohutnikh kryl" (2002, with a foreword by art critic Mykola Mushynka [uk]; Oleksa Novakivskyi and his art school foundation in Lviv).

In 1936, he participated in the preparation of the artist's posthumous exhibition organized by the Ukrainian Society of Art Supporters in Lviv (364 works of painting and graphics were presented then).

[1] Holubovskyi was mentioned in catalogs and reviews of exhibitions of Novakivskyi's paintings from M. Mushynka's private collection held in Ukraine, Canada, Slovakia, and the United States.