Ю́рій Дми́трович Великано́вич; 1910 – September 7, 1938) was a participant in the Spanish Civil War, Ukrainian interbrigadist, member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine.

[1] Yuri Velykanovych was born in a family of teachers, Emilia and Dmytro Velykanovych, in the village of Ilnyk (Austria-Hungary, nowadays Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine), where he graduated from school.

[3] In July 1937, he was a member of the company named after Taras Shevchenko (a part of the XIII Dabrowski Brigade) composed of Ukrainian communists from Galicia and Volhynia.

In addition a street was named Velykanovych (renamed by the authorities in 1991 after gaining independence).

At night on December 2, 2017, members of the neo-Nazi group C14 threw the sculpture to the ground, drew the slogan "Down with the communist!"