Vladimir Grigorievich Gorbovoy ( Ukrainian: Volodimir Grigorovich Gorboviy ; January 30, 1899 , Valley , Austria-Hungary - May 21, 1984 , Khodorov (now Zhydachiv district of the Lviv region of Ukraine ) - Ukrainian lawyer , political and military leader, nationalist Member of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).
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Biography
He graduated from the Stryi gymnasium. Member of the First World War, in a number of the Austro-Hungarian army fought on the Italian front (1915-1918). He was injured, lost his eye . Later he served as an officer of the Ukrainian Galician army , in August 1919 he participated in the attack on Kiev . Member of the Polish-Ukrainian and Civil War in Ukraine.
Since 1920, he has been the regional commander of the Ukrainian military organization (SVR) in the region of the Valley, since 1922, he was the chief of staff of the Central Command of the SVR in Lviv , and the chief of communications between the High Command and the National Headquarters of the SVR. Since November 1928, he served as the regional commander of the UVO. Since its inception, OUN has been a member of it.
In the interwar period he studied law in Prague. He graduated from the University of Prague. He acted as an advocate in political processes, was an advocate of Stepan Bandera in two processes - the process of the murder of Polish Minister of Internal Affairs B. Peratsky in Warsaw (1935-1936) and Lvov (1936) over members of the OUN due to the murder of the commissar of the USSR Consulate in Lviv Maylova (October 22, 1933), the director of the Lviv Academic Gymnasium Ivan Babiy (July 25, 1934) and student Jacob Bachinsky, as well as the failed assassination attempt on the subcommissioner of the Lviv prison Kosobudzky.
In 1934 he was one of the first prisoners of a concentration camp in the Birch-Kartuzskaya .
During the German occupation of Poland, since 1939 he lived in Krakow . In 1941, he was elected deputy chairman of the Ukrainian National Committee , actually acting chairman. After the adoption of the Act of Proclamation of the Ukrainian State on July 5, 1941, he was arrested by the Third Reich security police and imprisoned. In 1942, released for health reasons. He took part in the negotiations between the Polish and Ukrainian underground.
On July 1, 1947, he was arrested by the Czech police in Prague and handed over to the Poles, who in turn turned him over on July 9, 1948 to the USSR authorities. Sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment in a labor camp, he served his sentence completely. He was released on August 1, 1972 and was under police surveillance until the end of his life.
He died in the Valley, where he was buried in a local cemetery.
Memory
- In 2008, by the decision of the local council, Gorbova became an honorary citizen of the city of the Valley of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Ukraine
- His name is given to a street in the city of Valley .
Links
- Biography (Ukrainian)