- Petro Zakhvalynsky
Petro Zakhvalynsky _ru. Пётр Захвалынский, _uk. Петро Захвалинський, was also known under pseudonym "Roman" (died 1943) was a Ukrainian nationalist, member of
Andriy Melnyk 's faction inOUN .During the
Civil War he was an officer in Petlura's army, after his defeat emigrated toFrance where he joined theOUN . After the split of OUN in 1941 he supportedAndriy Melnyk 's faction.In October 1941 he came to Ukraine as a member of OUN groups that cooperated with Germans and were sent to occupied territories in order to establish a Ukrainian presence in the local administration under German occupation. In September 1941,
Kiev was occupied by Germans. He was active in establishing, aidedOleh Olzhych andStepan Sulyatytsky , anauxiliary police force known as theKiev Kurin ), of which he became the commander in November of 1941.The Kiev auxiliary police were later united with
Bukovyna Kurin and reformed, and Zakhvalynsky remained its commander. From November 1941 he was chief of police for the Kiev General District).In August 1942 he was removed from both offices (i.e. Chief of police of Kiev City and Kiev General District) and replaced by Anatol Kabaida. He was appointed a Hauptmann of the 2nd company of the 115th battalion of
Schutzmannschaft , participated in numerous operations against both partisans and civilians.In 1943 was secretly executed by Germans for nationalist agitation among his soldiers. [http://exlibris.rg.ua/buk/r03.html]
Literature
* Дерейко І. Діяльність 115/62-го українського батальйону шуцманшафту на теренах Білорусі та Франції в 1942—1944 рр. //Наукові записки НАУКМА. Т.21: Історичні науки. — К., 2003. [http://www.plast.org.ua/forum/viewtopic.php?p=31592&sid=ea1911a9de6f1473161b8363d2547b32 In Ukrainian] .
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