Stepan Klochurak (Rusyn and Ukrainian: Степан Клочурак) (27 February 1895 - 8 February 1980) was a Transcarpathian public activist, politician and lawyer. He was the Prime Minister of the short lived Hutsul Republic in 1919.
Biography Born in Yasinia, Máramaros County, Klochurak specialized in law, and in 1918-1919 became one of the organizers of the Hutsul Republic in his native settlement. After joining the Social democratic movement, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Vpered ("Forward") newspaper. Klochurak later joined the Ukrainian fraction of the Agrarian Party, and in 1934 became the editor of its printed publication Zemlia i Volia ("Land and Freedom").
In 1939 Klochurak was elected member of parliament of Carpatho-Ukraine, and served as Minister of Defense. Later during that year he emigrated to Prague. In 1945 he was arrested by NKVD and imprisoned in Gulag near Vorkuta until 1957. Klochurak died in 1980 in Prague.
He is a relative of Halina Pawlowská.
Awards
Order of Liberty (March 14, 2019, posthumously)
Memoirs
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