Mykola Lemyk (; 4 April 1914 in Soloviy, Galicia (Central Europe), Galicia – October 1941 in Myrhorod, Soviet Union, now Ukraine) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian political activist and leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).
Biography
After completing Gymnasium (school), gymnasium 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).](_blank)
/ref> On 21 October 1933 he was ordered by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN to Assassination, assassinate Alexei Mailov, OGPU agent and Secretary of the Soviet Union's Consul (representative), consulate in Lviv, which was then under Second Polish Republic, Polish administration. This political assassination was to publicize and to protest against the Holodomor.['Лемик Микола' ''Довідник з історії України''.](_blank)
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 Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, OUN-B — the faction supporting Stepan Bandera, 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 Myrhorod (which was then occupied by Nazi Germany), and shot
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Микола Лемик
"Mykola Lemyk"
Інтерв’ю Люби Євгенівни ВОЗНЯК-ЛЕМИК
"Interview with Liuba Voznyak-Lemyk"
1914 births
1941 deaths
Holodomor
People from Lviv Oblast
Executed assassins
Executed Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists members
Ukrainian nationalist assassins
Ukrainian people convicted of murder
Ukrainian people executed by Nazi Germany
People executed by Nazi Germany by firearm
People convicted of murder by Poland
Prisoners sentenced to death by Poland
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