Andriy Atanasovych Melnyk was a Ukrainian military and political leader best known for leading the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists from 1938 onwards and later the Melnykites following a split w
Melnyk, c. 1950
Members of the last supreme command of the Sich Riflemen; Lutsk, January 1920. Melnyk is seated, second from the left.
A November 1944 report of Pressburg SD to Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller, informing him about the creation of the Ukrainian National Committee
Melnykites is a colloquial name for members of the OUN-M or OUN, a faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists that arose out of a split with the more radical Banderite faction in 1940. The
Andriy Melnyk (officer)
…1964) was a Ukrainian military and political leader best known for leading the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists from 1938 onwards and later the Melnykites (OUN-M) following a split with the more radical Banderite faction (OUN-B) in 1940. Born in Austrian Galicia, Melnyk volunteered in the Legion of Ukrainian…
Triumphal arches welcoming the Nazi occupation in Western Ukraine. In Cyrillic, they read "Glory to Hitler! - Glory to Melnyk!".
Ukrainian nationalists in Lviv in the summer of 1941. Back row: Mykhailo Mykhalevych (OUN(m)), Omelyan Koval (OUN(b)), and Yuriy Rusov. Front row: OUN(m) members Orest Chemerynskyi, Olena Teliha, and Ulas Samchuk.
Members of the Ukrainian Legion of Self-Defense stationed in Hrubieszów County, 1944