Photo: A funeral service for OUN leader Andriy Melnyk was held at the Patriarchal Cathedral
On May 23, a memorial service was held at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church for OUN leader Andriy Melnyk and his wife, Sofiia Fedak-Melnyk. Representatives of the public and government officials, including Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Head of the Office of the President, attended to pay their respects.
This was reported by hromadske.
Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Head of the Office of the President; Andriy Yusov, spokesperson for the Main Intelligence Directorate; Oleksandr Alferov, head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance; and Bohdan Chervak, head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, came to pay their respects to Melnyk and his wife.
Andriy Melnyk was a military and political figure, a comrade-in-arms of Konovalets, a co-organizer of the Sich Riflemen, and a co-founder of the OUN. During World War II, he led the OUN from Germany and was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He married Sofiia Fedak in 1929 after his release from a Polish prison. After the war, Melnyk lived in Luxembourg, worked to consolidate the Ukrainian diaspora, and initiated the creation of the World Congress of Ukrainians. He died on November 1, 1964, in Cologne.
At the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv, a coffin containing the remains of UNR Army Colonel and OUN leader Andriy Melnyk and his wife Sofia Fedak-Melnyk has been placed on public display for a final tribute.
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