The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists was a Ukrainian nationalist organization established on February 2, 1929 in Vienna, uniting the Ukrainian Military Organization with smaller, mainly youth, r
Symon Petliura (center) and Colonel Yevhen Konovalets (to Petliura's right) taking the oath of office of the Sich Riflemen training school in Starokostiantyniv, 1919
Yevhen Konovalets, the OUN's leader from 1929 to 1938
The corpse of Bronisław Pieracki on 18 June 1934
Stepan Bandera
Andriy Melnyk (officer)
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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
Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists
…and totalitarian Ukrainian state. During the Second World War, in 1940, the OUN split into two parts. The older, more moderate members supported Andriy Melnyk's OUN-M, while the younger and more radical members supported Stepan Bandera's OUN-B. On 30 June 1941 OUN-B declared an independent Ukrainian state in…
Melnyk, c. 1950
Melnyk, c.1919
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