West Ukrainian People's Republic

The **West Ukrainian People's Republic** (**WUPR**) was a short-lived unrecognised government in-exile that controlled most of Eastern Galicia from November 1918 to July 1919. It included the cities of Lviv, Ternopil, Kolomyia, Drohobych, Boryslav, Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk) and right-bank Przemyśl, and claimed parts of Bukovina and Carpathian Ruthenia.

The WUPR emerged as a breakaway state amid the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, and in January 1919 nominally united with the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) as its autonomous Western Oblast. Poland had also claimed this territory, and by July occupied most of it and forced the West Ukrainian government into exile. When the UPR decided late the same year that it would trade the territory for an alliance with Poland against Soviet Russia, the exiled West Ukrainian government broke with the UPR. The exiled government continued its claim until it dissolved in 1923.

The coat of arms of the WUPR was azure, a golden lion rampant on a field of blue. The colours of the flag were blue and yellow.

Західно-Українська Народна Республіка 1918–1923. Енциклопедія. Т. 1: А–Ж. Івано-Франківськ : Манускрипт-Львів, 2018. 688 с.

Західно-Українська Народна Республіка 1918–1923. Енциклопедія. Т. 2: З–О. Івано-Франківськ : Манускрипт-Львів, 2019. 832 с.

Західно-Українська Народна Республіка 1918-1923. Енциклопедія. Т. 3: П – С. Івано-Франківськ: Манускрипт-Львів, 2020.576 с.

Західно-Українська Народна Республіка 1918-1923. Енциклопедія. Т. 4: Т – Я. Івано-Франківськ: Манускрипт-Львів, 2021.688 с.

## Infobox (country)

- **conventional long name**: West Ukrainian People's Republic
- **native name**: Західноукраїнська Народна Республіка
_Zakhidnoukrayins’ka Narodna Respublika_
- **image flag**: Flag of Ukraine (1917–1921).svg
- **image coat**: Coat of Arms of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (1918—1919).png
- **national anthem**: <small>(Ukrainian language, Ukrainian)</small>
Shche ne vmerla Ukraina <small>(Romanization of Ukrainian, transliteration)</small>

- **image map**: Location of the WUPR.png
- **demonym**: Ukrainian, West Ukrainian
- **government type**: Republic
- **status**: Disestablished
- **status text**: Government in exile
- **empire**: Ukrainian People's Republic
- **year end**: 1919
- **year start**: 1918
- **coa size**: 90px
- **image map caption**: West Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918
- **loctext**: Central Europe
- **common languages**: Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, Polish language, Polish
, Yiddish language, Yiddish
- **title leader**: List of leaders of Ukraine#Non-Soviet leaders of Ukraine 1917–1991, President
- **year leader1**: 1918
- **leader1**: Kost Levytsky
- **year leader2**: 1919
- **leader2**: Yevhen Petrushevych
- **date start**: 1 November
- **event1**: Act Zluky
- **date event1**: 22 January 1919
- **event end**: Exile
- **date end**: 16 July
- **event post**: Government-in-exile dissolved
- **date post**: 15 March 1923
- **stat year1**: 1910
- **stat pop1**: 5,400,000
- **p1**: Austria-Hungary
- **s1**: Ukrainian People's Republic
- **flag p1**: Flag of Austria-Hungary 1869-1918.svg
- **flag s1**: Flag of Ukraine (1917–1921).svg
- **flag s2**: Flag of Poland.svg
- **s2**: Second Polish Republic
- **flag s3**: Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg
- **s3**: First Czechoslovak Republic
- **flag s4**: Flag of Romania.svg
- **s4**: Kingdom of Romania
- **era**: World War I