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Stepan Hryhorovych Koropchak was a Ukrainian painter and graphic artist, a member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine since 1962, and an Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1990). Born on December 21, 1926 in the village of Nezabytivka (now the village of Ugry, Lviv region, Ukraine), he participated in World War II. In 1953, he graduated from the Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts, where his teachers were Yosyp Bokshai, Roman Selskyi, and Mykola Fediuk. He worked in Lviv as a lecturer at the Department of Architecture of the Lviv Polytechnic, from 1971 at the Lviv Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts, and from 1986 as a professor at the Department of Academic Painting. He worked in the field of easel painting and graphics. Among his works are "Carpathian Landscape" (1956), "Church in Kryvorivna" (1960), "Fortress in Sudak" (1962), "Sunflowers in Cherkasy Region" (1976), "Castle in Svirzh" (1977), "Mowers in Hutsul Region" (1979), and others. He participated in all-Ukrainian exhibitions starting in 1960 and all-Union exhibitions starting in 1962. His personal exhibitions were held in Lviv (1961, 1984). He died in Lviv on August 21, 2000. His works are kept in museums of Ukraine.