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Vira Buchynska (April 4, 1923, Mykulintsi, now Terebovlia district, Ternopil region) is a Ukrainian public figure and editor.

Biography
She studied at the gymnasium of the "Ridna Shkola" society in Ternopil and at the Pedagogical Lyceum in Berezhany.

She taught during the German-Soviet war. Since 1949, she has lived in Winnipeg, Canada.

She worked for the United Women of the Ukrainian Lutheran Women and the League of Ukrainian Catholic Women of Canada. She organized assistance for Ukrainian children in Brazil.

1977-1980 — Chair of the Provincial Council and Deputy President, Coordinator of the Central Committee, Secretary General (since 1983) of the Committee of Ukrainian Women of Canada; Deputy Chair of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations. Vice Chair and Secretary of the Manitoba Ukrainian Cooperative Center.

Author of the book "In the Footsteps of the Deaconesses — A History of the Manitoba Ukrainian Women's Cooperative," numerous articles and reports. Editor of Nasha Dorozha magazine (since 1974).