[1] Oleksa Volianskyi was born on 7 October 1862, in Zvyniach, now Bilobozhnytsia rural hromada in the Chortkiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast, to at.

Oleksa Volianskyi helped Volodymyr Shukhevych collect materials for a book about the Hutsul region.

He had a large library and archive, which were burned by Russian officers during World War I.

[5] His home in Kryvorivnia was visited by Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Hrushevsky,[2] Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Hnat Khotkevych, Vasyl Stefanyk,[2] Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Olha Kobylianska, Antin Krushelnytsky,[2] Ivan Krypiakevych, Oleksandr Oles, Marko Cheremshyna, Yevhen Tymchenko, Ivan Trush, Andrey Sheptytsky,[6] Hryhoriy Khomyshyn,[2] and others.

[5] Letters to V. Hnatiuk are kept in the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine.