Mykola Mykhalevych

Mykola Mykhalevych was born on 1 July 1843 in Romashivka (now the Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada, Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine).

[1] In his last years he lived with the parish priest, dean, and his student Sydor Hlynskyi, in Butsniv, Ternopil Raion, where he died on 27 November 1922.

The founder and chairman of the primary branch of the Prosvita in Cherneliv-Ruskyi, he promoted bee breeding and also took care of schooling.

[1][2] Contributed to several journals ("Ukrainske bdzhilnytstvo", "Ukrainskyi pasichnyk", "Hospodarskyi chasopys"), published the book "Pasika", which was later reprinted several times.

[1][3] A street in Ternopil was named after Mykhalevych (1991),[4][5] and a statue was unveiled in Cherneliv-Ruskyi (2001, sculptor Vasyl Sadovnyk, architect Danylo Chepil; initiator of the construction was Bohdan Rudka).