 He returned to Lviv to study at the gymnasium, living with his grandfather, an ethnographer Volodymyr Shukhevych.His political formation was influenced by Yevhen Konovalets, the commander of the Ukrainian Military Organization, who rented a room in Yevhen Konovalets's father's house from 1921 to 1922.In October 1926, Shukhevych entered the Lviv Politechnic Institute (then "Politechnika Lwowska" - when the city of Lwów was part of Second Polish Republic) to study civil engineering.