Dr. Yurii Teodozievych Yaniv, also known as Heorhii Feodosiiovych Yanev, (1892-1973) was a dentist, and a figure in the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States.
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BiographyBiography
Early yearsEarly years
He was born on 1 August 1892 in the village of Tsarevodarivka (now the village of Botiyeve, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine). His father was Theodosi Yanev, and his mother was Akilina, née Hristova. He studied at secondary schools in Melitopol (1911) and Simferopol (1912).
In 1920 in the city of Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk) he married Mariia Makhnitska.
CareerCareer
According to his biography, he entered the medical faculty of Imperial University of St. Volodymyr, but no documentary evidence of this has yet been found.
He joined the Ukrainian Army in the 21st Nalyvaiko Zaporizhzhia Regiment. During this period, he fell ill with typhus and from 9 October to 20 November 1919 was in the hospital of the Ukrainian Red Cross in Vinnytsia.
From 1 November 1923 he studied at Masaryk University, Faculty of Medicine. He got the scholarship from The Committee for Support of the Studium of the Ukrainian Students and from Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs because of his destitution.
He attended the seminars at the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University in the study year 1923/1924. He passed the partial exams from Anatomy and Physiology (1st Rigorosum) on the 27th of January 1925, the 2nd Rigorosum 29th of April 1926 and the 3rd Rigorosum 23rd of July 1927. The graduation ceremony was held on the 27th of July 1927.
He had to make the affidavit, that he would not work as a physician in Czechoslovakia, because he was a foreigner.
EmigrationEmigration
In May 1945, he moved to Germany and later emigrated in 1949 to Buffalo, USA, and then to Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked in a dental laboratory.
DeathDeath
He died in Seven Hills, a suburb of Cleveland, on 19 December 1973.