Dmytro Mymryk

Damian Mymryk (, secular name in ; 17 October 1947 – 11 September 2022) was a Ukrainian Studite monk, known as stonemason, stone carver and artist of vytynanky. He was a member of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine since 2005.

Biography Damian Mymryk was born on 17 October 1947 in Velykyi Hovyliv, Ternopil Oblast in the peasant family. He studied artistic stone processing at the vocational technical school #58 in Perm, Russia in 1970–1973 (teacher S. Kryvoshchokov), wood carving from his father Hryhoriy Mymryk, who was a folk craftsman. He worked as a carver at the district household plant in Monastyryska (Ternopil Oblast, 1968–1969) and at the forestry enterprise in Berezhany from 1973 until 1990. Since 1982 he also was engaged in the art of vytynanky.

Monk Damian died on the morning of 11 September 2022 after a long illness, buried at the monastic cemetery of the Univ Lavra in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.