Before World War II, he worked as a bookkeeper in a cooperative located in southeastern Polish town of Turka (now in Ukraine).
Turka, Russia, a former urban-type settlement in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia; since 2006—a rural locality (a selo)
Yuriy Tarnawsky (1934) — Ukrainian poet and novelist,one of the founding members of the New York Group, a Ukrainian émigré avant-garde group of writers, and co-founder and co-editor of the journal Novi Poeziyi (New Poetry; 1959–1972).
Wladyslaw Ossowski (born November 5, 1925 in the village of Iwaszkowce near Turka, Poland, died August 5, 2000 in Legnica), was a Polish boyscout and member of the White Couriers.