Founder of one of the first Sich societies (which promoted physical education and fire-fighting organization) in Bukovina and editor of the teacher's magazine Promin (1903).

He was the chairman of the educational commission in the camp for Ukrainian prisoners of war in Rastatt, Germany.

He disagreed with Semen Vityk [uk], who was supported by Symon Petliura, on the reorganization of the system of public administration under the leadership of Yevhen Petrushevych, leader of the WUPR.

was arrested by the Polish government on 11 February 1920 in Kamianets-Podilskyi, alongside fellow UPR government officials Isaak Mazepa, Andriy Livytskyi, and Ivan Ohienko in accordance with the order of the Polish Chief Commissioner of Volhynia and the Podolsk Front A. Minkevych.

An official apology for the "unfortunate case" of the arrest was issued by the Polish Foreign Ministry on March 11 to the Ukrainian diplomatic mission in Warsaw.