Mariya Shtepa

Mariya Shtepa (Ukrainian: Марія Степанівна Штепа, 13 March 1925 — 1 June 2020) was a Ukrainian writer and took part in the . In 1942 she became a member of the .

On 22 August 2016 she was awarded the  of the III degree by the Ukrainian president President Petro Poroshenko.

 Biography 
Shtepa was born on 13 March 1925 in Romashivka, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine.

From 1944 to 1946, she worked as a messenger for the armed underground in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast. In 1946, Maria was arrested by the Ministry of State Security, and sentenced to 10 years. She was in prison at Mordovia and Chelyabinsk region.

Since 1968, she was living in Ukraine.

In the 1980s, she organized a church choir in the village of Bilobozhnytsia. She initiated the construction of a "Victims of the totalitarian regime" monument, in the center of the village, and the restoration of the tomb of the Sich Rifleman in the Bilobozhnytsia cemetery.

She founded a museum of political prisoners and repressed in Chortkiv district in the premises of buchach diocese department of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

Shtepa died on 1 June 2020 in Chortkiv, Ukraine at the age of 95.Померла легендарна зв’язкова УПА Марія Штепа, Чортків.City, 1 June 2020 She was buried in the village of Kalynivshchyna, in Chortkiv Raion.Зоряна Мурашка. Чортків у постатях. Марія Штепа, У круговерті часу (Сторінками історії Чорткова (1918—1991 рр.). Книга третя, П. С. Федоришин, Тернопіль : Підручники і посібники, 2022, s. 453, ISBN 978-966-07-4050-1.

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Category:Ukrainian writers
Category:2020 deaths
Category:1925 births
Category:People from Ternopil Oblast