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leadership of Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists In Ukraine: Western Ukraine under Polish rule …the independence struggle, headed by Yevhen Konovalets. In 1929 this was transformed into a broader underground movement, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).

Initially headed by Yevhen Konovalets, the organization promoted the idea of armed struggle for the independence of Ukraine. The headquarters of the organization was located in Lwów (today Lviv ) in the Second Polish Republic .

Konovalets, Yevhen [Konovalec’, Jevhen], b 14 June 1891 in Zashkiv, Lviv county, Galicia, d 23 May 1938 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Military commander with the rank of colonel in the Army of the Ukrainian National Republic, and political leader of the nationalist movement; brother of Myron Konovalets.

May 23, 2018, marks 80 years since the assassination of one of Ukraine’s greatest statesmen, revolutionaries and military leaders – Col. Yevhen Konovalets. Struck down by the cowardly time-bomb of an NKVD agent, his body was discovered on the streets of Rotterdam, Germany, in 1938, almost 12 years to the….

Yevhen Konovalets, a leader who knew how to unite Ukrainians and was assassinated by NKVD. 14 June 2021 marked 130 years since the birth of Ukrainian Colonel Yevhen Konovalets (14 June 1891 – 23 May 1938), who founded the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and was among the main Ukrainian political leaders of the 1930s who pursued ...

Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets , also anglicized as Eugene Konovalets, was a military commander of the Ukrainian National Republic army, veteran of the Ukrainian-Soviet War and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement.

Yevhen Konovalets Against the GPU-NKVD. May 23, 1938, Pavlo Sudoplatov, an employee of the NKVD of the USSR, killed the head of the OUN Provid (leadership - transl.), Yevhen Konovalets. The fatal explosion in Rotterdam was the culmination of the Soviet GPU-NKVD’s long-running large-scale operation, which was personally instructed by Joseph ...

Ukraine - Polish Rule, Galicia, Habsburgs: Important differences marked the two main regions that found themselves in the confines of reconstituted Poland. Galicia was the less ethnically homogeneous.