Nestor Nyzhankivsky

Received his doctoral degree in history from the University of Vienna and graduated from the Prague State Conservatory.

Nyzhankivsky family moved to Stryi in 1900, where Nestor finished school and gymnasium.

He received a PhD in history from Vienna University (1923) and graduated from the Prague State Conservatory (1927) in the master class of Vítězslav Novák.

[2] He returned to Galicia to teach piano and theory at the Lysenko Higher Institute of Music in Lviv (1931–39) and became one of the founders (and first chairman) of the Union of Ukrainian Professional Musicians (SUPROM).

The remains of Nestor Nyzhankivsky were reburied in cemetery of the city Stryi November 1993, near the tomb of his parents.