Yevhen Konovalets
Military commander of the UNR army and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement (1891-1938) · Politicians · Died at 46
Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets was a Ukrainian military commander and political leader of the Ukrainian nationalist movement.
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Konovalets in Kyiv, 1918.
Konovalets (first left) as commander of Sich Riflemen in Shepetivka, 1919
Yevhen Konovalets with son Yurko
Yevhen Konovalets' Lithuanian passport, used in exile
The body of Konovalets, at the site of the explosion.![OUN members and others at Konovalets's funeral, 28 May 1938. Historian Ivan Khoma identifies (L-R) Consul General of Lithuania in Rotterdam Pierre Penn, Yaroslav Baranovksy, Olha Konovalets, Volodymyr Martynets, Omelyan Tarnavetsky, and Viktor Kurmanovych (front).[39]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Konovalets_funeral_1938.jpg/1280px-Konovalets_funeral_1938.jpg)
OUN members and others at Konovalets's funeral, 28 May 1938. Historian Ivan Khoma identifies (L-R) Consul General of Lithuania in Rotterdam Pierre Penn, Yaroslav Baranovksy, Olha Konovalets, Volodymyr Martynets, Omelyan Tarnavetsky, and Viktor Kurmanovych (front).[39]
Tomb of Yevhen Konovalets in Rotterdam, the NetherlandsAwards
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He is best known for his role in the Ukrainian War of Independence as leader of the Sich Riflemen and as the leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) from its foundation in 1929 to his assassination in 1938 by the NKVD. Konovalets was also a veteran of the First World War and cofounded the OUN's predecessor, the Ukrainian Military Organisation, in 1920, assuming leadership of the organisation.
