ARTYKUŁY INFORMACYJNE Bolesław Bujalski – geolog o bohaterskim życiorysie

Abstract

Bolesław Bujalski – a geologist of heroic biography.A b s t r a c t. Doctor Bolesław Bujalski (1888–1945) graduated from Lviv University to become an outstanding Polish geologist and cartographer. His major fields of expertise included tectonics and structural geology of the Flysch Belt of the Outer Eastern and Western Carpathians and oil potential in these regions. His professional career included work for a petroleum company Towarzystwo Naftowe "Galicja" S.A. and the Polish Geological Institute. During the First World War, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army. He fought on the Russian and Italian fronts and advanced to the rank of Lieutenant. After the war, in November 1918 Doctor Bujalski he joined the reborn Polish Army in the rank of Captain and took part in a battle called the Defense of Lviv in the Polish historiography. He also fought in the Polish-Soviet War in 1920. For his distinguished merits, he was awarded the highest military distinction of Poland, the Silver Cross of the War Order of "Virtuti Militari". During the Second World War, he headed the Relief Committee of the Central Welfare Council in Stanisławów, a charity organization operating in Poland under the German occupation. He tried to continue these activities after the entry of the Red Army into the Stanisławów area in 1944 to be soon arrested by the Soviet security services (NKVD) and die in a jail most probably in early 1945.