Oleksander Fylypovych (1902-1986) was a Ukrainian chemist, literary researcher, and translator. He was born on February 23, 1902 in a village of Kaitanivka, Zvenyhorod district, Kyiv gubernia. Oleksander Fylypovych was a younger brother of Pavlo Fylypovych (1891-1937), a prominent Ukrainian poet and literary scholar. In 1922-1926, Fylypovych studied chemistry at Kyivs’kyi Instytut Narodnoi Osvity. In 1935-1941 Fylypovych worked as an assistant in the chemistry department at the Second Medical Institute in Kyiv. In July 1941 he was conscripted into the Red Army and eventually was detained by the German army. After his release, Fylypovych returned to Kyiv to teach at the same institution. In 1943 Fylypovych moved to Berlin, but at first lived in Vinnytsia and Lviv. In 1949, Fylypovych immigrated to the United States. Fylypovych compiled and prefaced Pavlo Fylypovych’s collection of poem, Poezii (Munich, 1957). He also conducted research and wrote scholarly articles about Pavlo Fylypovych, Iurii Klen, Mykola Zerov, Mykhailo Drai-Khmara, Mykhailo Orest, Maksym Ryl’s’ky, among others. Fylypovych also translated from English and Russian into Ukrainian. He was a member of the Ob’iednannia Ukrains’kykh Pys’mennykiv “Slovo”. Fylypovych died on April 10, 1986 in Minneapolis.