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Kyrylo Osmak — Head of the Underground Government of Ukraine

Kyrylo Osmak — Head of the Underground Government of Ukraine

1999, 27 min

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 1999.

The episode of the program "Last Address" is dedicated to the memory of the head of the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council, political figure Kyrylo Osmak.

The video contains an interview with Kyrylo Osmak's daughter, Natalia Osmak. She talks about her family, her father's biography, his prison exile and public and political activities, and shares family archival materials.

Contains a fragment of an interview with the leading Ukrainian participant in the liberation and revolutionary struggle, Myroslav Prokop, recorded in the United States of America.

The host is Doctor of Historical Sciences Yuriy Shapoval.

Reference: Kyrylo Osmak is a Ukrainian agrarian scientist, public and political figure, member of the Central Rada, head of the Underground Government of Ukraine and president of the Ukrainian Main Liberation Council (1944). He was repeatedly arrested by the Soviet authorities, spent his last years in the Vladimir Central, where he tragically died. Posthumously honored with memorial signs, renaming of streets and awarded the Order of Freedom (2018).