Mariia Stepanivna Shtepa (Ukrainian: Марія Степанівна Штепа, pseudonym Topolia;[1] 13 March 1925 — 1 June 2020, Chortkiv, Ternopil Oblast[2]) was a Ukrainian writer, participant in the national liberation struggle.

She served her sentence in a penal labor camp in Mordovia and Chelyabinsk Oblast (both now in the Russian Federation).

She initiated the construction of the monument to the Victims of the Totalitarian Regime in the center of the village, as well as the restoration of the grave of the Sich Rifleman at the Bilobozhnytsia cemetery.

[4] She was the founder of the Museum of Political Prisoners and Repressed in the Chortkiv District in the premises of the Buchach Diocesan Administration of the UGCC.

[5] She died on 1 June 2020, in the shelter of the Chortkiv department of the Caritas Charitable Foundation.