Історичний портрет працівника служби безпеки ОУН: відомий та невідомий Роман Різняк-"Макомацький" (1944-1948)

Vasyl ILNYTSKYI,

PhD hab. (History), Associate Professor of Ukraine S New and Modern History Department

HISTORICAL PORTRAIT OF THE OUN'S SECURITY SERVICE ACTIVIST: THE KNOWN AND UNKNOWN ROMAN RIZNIAK-«MAKOMATSKYI» (1944 - 1948)

The activity of special agencies is one of the most mysterious and, at the same time, interesting questions of history. After all, the specificity of their activity demanded extreme conspiracy. The special subsections in the structure of the Ukrainian liberation movement, first of all, the Security Agency (SA) of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) did not become an exception. Besides, the study of the question ofpersonal participation in the OUN's SA of both separate persons in general and the administrative board in particular still leaves much to be desired. During the recent years there appeared researches mostly into the OUN's SA higher administrative board, however, the middle and lower links still remain insufficiently or not at all investigated. The article purposes to discover the activity of the member of Drohobych OUN's regional leadership Roman Rizniak alias - by nom de guerre - «Makomatskyi»(1944 - 1948).

The figure of Roman Rizniak-«Makomatskyi» is ascribed by many myths. His exact biographic data are absent, in particular, very little is known about his pre-war activity. It is only from his sister's memoirs that we have learned of some milestones of Roman Rizniak's life, whereas the documentary data have not kept up. The basic accent is put on his activity as an agent of the OUN's Secret Agency. Questions of the strength, structure, stages of liquidation of the supervised by Roman Rizniakfighting center are also investigated. As a separate issue, the author treats the circumstances of Roman Rizniak's extermination.

On the basis of the found documents it has become possible to establish that in 1944 Roman Rizniak fulfilled the duties of the commandant of an OUN SA fighting centre protecting Drohobych county (nadraion) leadership of the OUN. In 1945 - 1946 «Makomatskyi» became known as the head of a fighting centre of Drohobych city leadership of the OUN; in 1947-1948 he was the commandant of a fighting centre of Drohobych country leadership of the OUN. In June 1948 R. Rizniak-«Makomatskyi» became the new head of the Drohobych district (raion) leadership of the OUN's Secret Agency.

In spite of the fact that for today a whole chain of Roman Rizniak-«Makomatskyi's» life and struggle remains quite obscure, as well as his fighting centre, the author, nevertheless, can affirm of Roman Rizniak's well enough planned and productive activity which revealed itself in a long and effective opposition to the repressive-retaliatory system and in preventing the establishment of the Soviet administration. We consider as perspective a direction of research into the disclosure of «Makomatskyi's» activity in the interwar period and during the World War II.

Василий ИЛЬНИЦКИЙ,

доктор исторических наук, доцент кафедры новой и новейшей истории Украины Дрогобычского государственного педагогического университета имени Ивана Франко (Дрогобич, Украина)

ИСТОРИЧЕСКИЙ ПОРТРЕТ СОТРУДНИКА СЛУЖБЫ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ ОУН: ИЗВЕСТНЫЙ И НЕИЗВЕСТНЫЙ РОМАН РИЗНЯК-«МАКОМАЦКИЙ» (1944 - 1948)

В статье на основе неизвестных и малоизвестных документов освещаются основные этапы боевого пути Романа Ризняка-«Макомацкого». Основной акцент ставится на его деятельности в референтуре СБ ОУН. Исследуется также численность, состав, этапы ликвидации вооруженного отряда, которым руководил Р. Ризняк. Отдельно автор останавливается на обстоятельствах гибели Романа Ризняка.