From May 1987 till June 1989 he served his military service in the ranks of the Soviet Army in the city of Sambir Lviv Oblast.
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Ukraine includes a great deal of territory (some later part of Poland or Czechoslovakia before 1939) that used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Lviv Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ternopil Oblast, most of the Chernivtsi Oblast and the Zakarpattia Oblast.
Bucyk was born in Edmonton to Sam and Perl Bucyk, Ukrainian immigrants from the village of Butsiv, in what is now Mostyska Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
In October 1944 these were joined by a further transfer of Lubaczów, Horyniec, Laszki, Uhnów and Sieniawa raions of the Lviv Oblast from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Zolochiv Castle was a residence of the Sobieski noble family on a hill at the confluence of two small rivers in the south-eastern part of Zolochiv, Galicia (now part of Ukraine's Lviv Oblast).
Hlyniany, Lviv oblast, Ukraine (formerly Gliniany, Poland; and formerly in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire)
Sieciechów (Sytykhiv), a village in Lviv Oblast of western Ukraine;
Vydra, Ukraine, a village (selo) in Brodivskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine