02-05-2004, 01:03 AM (This post was last modified: 02-09-2004, 04:14 PM by Taz.)
The companies in Major "Ren's' Kurin battalion were:
"Udarnyky" 1 (94) - Commanders "Veselyi", Yarych", "Didyk"
and "Brodych"
"Udarnyky 1",
The company had four successive company commanders:
1) Danylo Svistel ("Veselyi"), from August 1944 until April 1945, when he was killed near Vetlyna, Lisko county, in action against the NKVD.
2) Next, very briefly, the company was commanded by "Yarych".
3) On June 15, 1945, Sgt.Major"Didyk" was appointed company commander.
4) During the summer of 1946, "Didyk" was replaced by First Lt.Roman Hrobelskyi ("Brodych"). "Brodych" remained company commander until the company ceased to operate and its soldiers marched out in small groups to Western Europe (September 1947).
306 men, a cavalry platoon of 45 horses, a squad of Military Police,and one cannon.
"Udarnyky" 8 (95b) - Commander "Stakh"
The Peremyshl battalion was established in 1945, as part of the 26 military district (TV) UPA "Lemko", which was commanded by Captain Vasyl Mizernyi ("Ren").
The first battalion commander was First Lieutenant "Konyk," posthumously promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, who was killed during the UPA attack on the town of Bircha on January 6, 1946. Then Second Lieutenant (later Major) Petro Mykolenko became battalion commander; he was at the same time deputy to the commander of 26 TV "Lemko," Captain V. Mizernyi.
Bohdan Huk ("Skala")Who died on July 12, 1981 and "Hordyi",
The battalion was made up of the following companies:
"Udarnyky" 2 (95), commander -- First Lieutenant Mykhailo Duda ("Hromenko")
"Udarnyky" 4 (94a), commander -- Second Lieutenant Volodymyr Shchyhelskyi ("Burlaka") on August, 1947, captured by Czechoslovak soldiers. Later, he was handed over to the Polish People's Republic and sentenced to death in Rzeszow.
Warrant Officer of the Company, "Burkun"
"Udarnyky" 7 (94b), commander -- Sergeant-Major Hryhorii
Iankivskyi ("Lastivka") - Iankivskyi was killed on May 02, 1947
"Udarnyky" 6 (96a), commander -- Second Lieutenant Iaroslav Kotsiolok ("Krylach","Sukhyi," ) - Kotsiolok was killed on June 15, 1947.
First Company Warrant Officer was , "Obarianyk", then Warrant Officer ,"Orest"
The first commander of this company was Lt. "Baron". He was killed on October 21, 1945, in the village of Kuzmyna.
Command of the company was taken over by "Iar" He commanded the company until the summer of 1946.
On July 23, 1946, command of the company "Udarnyky" 6 was taken over by Second Lieutenant Iaroslav Kotsiolok.
Until February, 1946, also in the battalion was the company under the command of Volodymyr Sorochak ("Voron").
Companies 94a & 96a merged into one unit after Kotsiolok's death.
The most important period of this battalion was when it was battling numerous Polish and Czech Communist divisions. In August 1947 the battalion was disbanded.
Second Lieutenant Volodymyr Shchyhelskyi ("Burlaka")
Eddie.
Everybody's equal, But some more than others!
"Those who come to us with the sword - will be killed by the sword" - Alexander Nevski
02-05-2004, 05:18 PM (This post was last modified: 02-07-2004, 03:31 PM by Taz.)
Doug, William Thanks,
Doug I was thinking that maybe with a lot of patience and no doubt with a few errors to start with it should be possible to at least get a rough OoB or structure together for the UPA. Things like Tactical areas, battalions and the like, would you or anybody else for that matter be interested in trying to pull this of? Maybe at the end of the thread we could get a big picture of how their army was organized.
One thing is for sure not all documents on this subject are open to the public yet and behind a lot of the code names the real identities are still hidden.
What do you think? Shall we risk a try and carry on?
I for one like a tough challenge and this sure is one!
I hope the answer is yes. If so I thought we could carry on like this. Iv,e started with the Peremyshl battalion and any further infomation regarding this unit could be edited into this post to save space and a countless number of seperate features. And we could do the same for other units editing infos into the posts as it becomes available.
William,
Thanks, I must say I like doing this sort Research and it makes even more fun if the other Forum Members take an interest.
Most of the infos I find are from endless hours of Internet surfing and reading the various, somtimes very long articles.
The main handicap I have though is not being able to read Russian.There must be so much more Information out there on the Russian web sites.
It does help of course when you are interested in History and that is one subject that I have always taken a liking to.
Second Lieutenant Iaroslav Kotsiolok ("Krylach","Sukhyi," ) - Kotsiolok was killed on June 15, 1947.
Eddie.
Everybody's equal, But some more than others!
"Those who come to us with the sword - will be killed by the sword" - Alexander Nevski
02-05-2004, 07:02 PM (This post was last modified: 02-06-2004, 04:27 PM by Taz.)
UPA's 3rd Podillia Military Region (group): "Lysonia"
"Podillia" was the code name of the OUN
Reorganized in the spring of 1945
It is not known exactly what territory this military region covered
The leaders of this krai were Iulian Huliak ("Tokar") - 1943, Ivan Shanaida ("Danylo") - 1944-45 , Osyp Bezpalko ("Ostap", Andriy", "Zadorozhnyi") - 1945-1947, and Vasyl Bey ("Ulas") - 1947-1952(?).
Chief of the mobilization section of "Lysonia" - "Hordienko".
It is not clear whether "Hordienko" is another pseudonym of "Chuhaistyr'' or a different UPA officer.
Medical :
Halyna Didyk - began as director of the Ukrainian Red Cross in Ternopil oblast; she then directed the whole underground Red Cross, and finally served as liaison officer for the central underground leadership. She was a political prisoner from 1950 to 1971 and died in 1979.
Ukrainian Red Cross worker, Kateryna Husak ("Raketa").
UPA commander special task force "UPA EAST".- Kost Himmelraikh
Battalions - "Siromantsi", "Poltavtsi" and "Chornomortsi".
"Lysonia" had 18 fighting UPA companies as well as the battalion commanded by "Bystryi" from Kamianets-Podilskyi ( with an additional three or four Companies).
During Autum of 1944, several battalions were created out of some of these companies.
Commander of the Military Region "Lysonia" - "Ostap" first lieutenant Omelian Poliovyi
Up to the winter of 1946, the commander of the UPA's 3rd Military Region was Lieutenant Omelian Poliovyi ("Ostap"). After he was captured by the Soviets, command of the region was taken over by Major Volodymyr Iakubovskyi ("Bondarenko"), who earlier had served as the region's chief of staff.
"Bondarenko" - was killed on June 17, 1947.
In the spring of 1945, the UPA's 3d Military Region "Lysonia" was divided into five military districts (T.V.): Berezhany, Buchach, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ternopil and Chortkiv, which were numbered from 15 to 19. However, no information exists about the code names or the command staffs of these military districts. All that is known is that the Ternopil Military District had the code name "Seret" I (therefore the Chortkiv Military District was probably code name "Seret" II)
Battalions:
"Siromantsi" - battalion commander first "Roman" then Captain Dmytro Karpenko ("Iastrub"," Chad") who was a former company commander.
Adjutant - Sergeant-Major Mykhailo Nebola ("Holka"), briefly as company commander, and for quite a long time, as assistant company commander to "Chornyi" in "Burlaky" company,
"Poltavtsi" and "Chornomortsi" - "Ostap" and "Bondarenko's" large UPA detachment (zahin).
02-06-2004, 10:56 PM (This post was last modified: 02-06-2004, 10:57 PM by Taz.)
"The UPA's North Western Military Region,"
Chief of the Operational Section of the Volynian Command of the UPA Col. M. Omeliusik.
Chief of Political Staff of the UPA Group - "Zahrava"
Political officer, company commander and finally liaison officer in the UPA North Western Military Region "Turiv" in Volyn' oblast V. Novak ("Krylatyi")
UPA armourers - Commander "Yurko"
Armourers were members first of the battalion led by "Slavko," then they moved to the "Sich" centre in the Svynars'k forest; and finally to Dominopil'
In Spring of 1944 the armourers' group was disbanded
02-07-2004, 03:07 PM (This post was last modified: 02-07-2004, 03:18 PM by Taz.)
Kholm UPA TV was established in the spring of 1945; in Autum it received the number 28; the code name "Danyliv" was given to the district by the local command, in honour of King Danylo.
Continuing updates and photos of all the previous above Units as Info becomes available, see Edit Dates.
Eddie.
Everybody's equal, But some more than others!
"Those who come to us with the sword - will be killed by the sword" - Alexander Nevski
