Kostyantyna Malytska

Konstantyna Ivanivna Malytska or Rastyk; Vira Lebedova; Chaika Dnistrova (; 30 May 1872 – 17 March 1947) was a Ukrainian educator, writer, and activist.

Biography Malytska was born in Kropyvnyk in Kalush Raion in 1872. She studied to be a teacher and graduated in 1892. She taught elementary education in Halych, Luzhany, and Lviv at the Shevchenko Girls' School. and Stepaniv would be its first female officer.

In 1938, the Second Polish Republic declared the Ukrainian Women's Union illegal. As a result, another women's organization, the Druzhyna Kniahyni Olhy (Friends of Princess Ohla), was formed and Marytska became one of its leaders. The organisation's new existence was brief, as it disappeared when the Soviets occupied Galicia in 1939.

In the summer of 1941, she initiated the founding of the Women's Service of Ukraine society, and headed it until September 1941.

Writing Malytska wrote children's plays, songs, and magazine contributions. In 1899, she published children's stories in Mali druzi (Little Friends, 1899, 1906) and her articles about education in Maty (Mother, 1902) and Z trahedii dytiachykh dush (From the Tragedies of Children's Souls, 1907).

Death Malytska died in Lviv in 1947.