[1] He was born on August 7, 1893, in Galicia, in the village of Didyliv, Kamianka-Strumyliv County (Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kamianka-Buzka Raion, Lviv region, Ukraine).
During the First World War he served in the 30th Infantry Regiment of the Regional Defense of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
He served in the Ukrainian Galician Army, commander of the regiment of the 3rd Berzezany Brigade.
From 1921 he was a member of the UVO, a combat officer of the Initial Team of the organization during 1921–1922.
He died on June 16, 1978, in New York City and is buried in a Ukrainian cemetery in South Bound Brook, New Jersey.