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Stepan Ivanovych Levynskyi (1897, Lviv - 1946) was a Ukrainian writer, traveller, orientalist, culturologists, and diplomat.

Biography
He was born in 1897 in Lviv; his father was Ivan Levynskyi. Graduated from gymnasium and Lviv Polytechnic with a degree in chemical engineering. Studied in Brussels (Belgium). In 1922 he left for Paris. He graduated from the Japanese department of the School of State Languages ​​(1929) and the School of Political Science in Paris. He lived in the Japanese House, where he improved his knowledge of the language and customs in the company of Japanese people. From 1936-1940, he worked as a trade and economic officer and translator from the Japanese at the Polish consulate in Harbin. Lived in Shanghai, Beijing. He received this position with the support of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance (UNDO), mainly the deputy marshal of the Polish sejm Vasyl Mudry contributed to this. In January 1939, he resigned because of Poland's anti-Ukrainian action (liquidation of Carpathian Ukraine) but withdrew this statement under pressure from UNDO.

From 1942-1946, he was a translator from Japanese in the French-Japanese Committee under the Governor of Indochina. Collaborated in the Ukrainian-language magazine Ukrainian Voice in the Far East (published on November 1, 1941, in Shanghai). Took part in preparing the first Ukrainian-Japanese dictionary (Harbin, 1944). After the World War II, he was evacuated to France.

He died on October 8, 1946, in Gap (France).

Creative work
The author of the memoirs Vid Vezuvia do piskiv Sakhary (From Vesuvius to Sahara Sands), Z yaponskoho domu (From the Japanese Home) (1932), Skhid i Zakhid (East and West) (1934), Khatyna buddiiskoho samitnyka (The Hut of a Buddhist Hermit) (1934), Vrazhennia z Yaponii (Impressions from Japan) (1942-1944). He wrote about Japanese poetry (translations by S. Gordynskyi), architectural monuments of Lviv and their restoration.

In 1933, for the book Z yaponskoho domu he received a prize from Ivan Franko's Society of Writers and Journalists. From 1934–35 Levynsky was published in the Lviv magazine Nazustrich.