[1] During World War I, he served as a soldier of the Austria-Hungary army, later in 1919 in the Zakarpattia Red Guards of the Hungarian Soviet Republic.
[1] In March 1939 Turyanytsia emigrated to the Soviet Union[1] and joined the International Red Aid organization (1939–1940).
[1] In 1940–1941 he worked as an economist planner at the Steam Locomotive Factory of the October Revolution (today Luhanskteplovoz) in Voroshilovgrad.
[1] In 1944–1945, he also played a key role in the deportation of the local Hungarian and German-speaking civilian population out of Zakarpattia [3] first to Szolyva, then to Galicia and the rest of the Soviet Union.
[4] Since 1947, Turyanytsia was a member of the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada and since 1949 the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine.