LAWYER`S AND PUBLIC ACTIVITY OF KOST PANKIVSKYI IN THE 1930-ies
The purpose of the article is to analyze the professional and public activities of the well-known Lviv lawyer Kost Pankivskyi in the 1930-ies. Research methodology – principles of science, historicism and objectivity, biographical and prosopographic approaches to the study of life and activity of historical figures, historical-genetic and historical-typological methods, the method of internal critique of sources. Research novelty – for the first time in the historical biography, it has been done a study of the professional and public activity of a well-known Lviv lawyer Kost Pankivskyi in the 1930-ies, which later became a prominent Ukrainian public and political figure, the head of the Government of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) in exile. The Conclusions. Thus, since 1930, the lawyer K. Pankivskyi started his own law practice in Lviv. His cases can be divided into three categories: 1) political, 2) corporate, 3) private. In particular, he distinguished himself as a defender of those accused of "political offenses" – participants of the UMO, OUN, KPWU, Komsomol of Western Ukraine. At the same time, K. Pankivskyi was actively involved in the work of the Chamber of lawyers and the Union of Ukrainian Lawyers in Lviv. During his work, he gained a good reputation among colleagues (including Jews and Poles) and clients and was considered one of the best Ukrainian lawyers in Eastern Halychyna (together with S. Shukhevych, S. Fedak, V. Starosolskyi). The prolonged legal practice in the 1930-ies created the personal and public foundation that enabled K. Pankivskyi to prove himself as a public and political figure during the difficult years of the World War II and the post-war period.