Stanisław Franciszek Sosabowski was born in Stanisławów* - Polish general of a brigade. In 1940 He started building a first Parachute brigade in Polish Army. In 1942 the brigade was ready and named the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade. In 1944 it took part in Operation Market - Garden. He died in 1967 casue of heart attack. Author of Najkrótszą drogą, Wychowanie żołnierza-obywatela, Droga wiodła ugorem. Wspomnienia, Freely I served * The city til 1939 belonged to Poland, 1939 - 1941 to Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic 1941 - 1944 to Distrikt Galizien, Generalgouvernement 1944 - 1991 to Ukrainian SSR (in 1962 renamed to Ivano - Frankivisk) Posr 1991 to independent Ukraine