It was named after Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, a Ukrainian academician, politician, historian, and statesman.
She met Hrushevsky in Lviv in 1893 and after three years they married in a town of Skala near Borschiv.
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Thus he claimed the ancient Ukrainian Steppe cultures from Scythia, through Kievan Rus' to the Cossacks as part of the Ukrainian heritage.