Mykola Lemyk ( uk, Микола Лемик; 4 April 1914 in Soloviy,

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– October 1941 in

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political activist and leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).

Biography

After completing

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he studied law at Lviv University and joined the youth branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in the early 1930s.'Lemyk, Mykola' ''Encyclopedia of Ukraine'', vol. 3 (1993).
/ref> On 21 October 1933 he was ordered by the

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Alexei Mailov,

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agent and Secretary of the Soviet Union's consulate in Lviv, which was then under

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administration. This political assassination was to publicize and to protest against the

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. In December 1933, the Polish court in Lviv sentenced Lemyk to death, which was later commuted to

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.'Лемик Микола' ''Довідник з історії України''.
2nd edition, Kyiv, 2001. pp. 401–402. At the outset of World War II in 1939 Lemyk was freed from jail, and on 4 August 1940 he married Liuba Vozniak. From 1941 Lemyk was in the regional command of the

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— the faction supporting Andriy Melnyk, in Eastern Ukraine. In the fall of 1941 he led the Central Committee of the OUN. In October 1941 Lemyk was arrested by the Gestapo in

(which was then occupied by Nazi Germany), and shot (other sources state that he was hanged by the Gestapo).

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Микола Лемик
"Mykola Lemyk"
Інтерв’ю Люби Євгенівни ВОЗНЯК-ЛЕМИК
"Interview with Liuba Voznyak-Lemyk" 1914 births 1941 deaths Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists assassins Holodomor People from Lviv Oblast Executed assassins Ukrainian people convicted of murder Ukrainian people executed by Nazi Germany People convicted of murder by Poland Prisoners sentenced to death by Poland {{Ukraine-bio-stub