Richard Yary

Richard Franz Marian Yary (Yaryga, a.k. as Karpat, and Riko Yary)(1898-1969)

One of the highest functionaries of the OUN. Born in Austria-Hungary, according to the Ukrainian publicist P. Cheremys, he was of Hungarian-Jewish extraction and was married to R. Schpiegelvogel. In 1912 he completed his studies in the Military Academny in Vienna. In the years of WWI 1914-18 he was an officer in th 9th Dragoons Legion of the Austrian Army. In 1918 he went over to the side of the Ukrainian Galician Army UHA and commanded a sniper division and later the 2nd cavalry. In 1919 he fought with the 5th Kherson battalion of the Ukrainian National Republic. In 1920 as part of the battalion he was interned in Czechoslovakia and was in an internment camp in Uzhhorod. From 1921-29 he was an active member of the Ukrainian Military Organization UVO, one of the closest advisers to Yevhen Konovaletz. In 1920's he directed th espionage courses of the UVO organized by the Abwehr. In January 1929 he took part in the First Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists in Vienna where the formation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists OUN was announced. From 1932-33 he had numerous meeting with E. Rem. From 1937-38 he became the communications officer between Yevhen Konovaletz and admiral V. Kanaris of the Abwehr. He became an agent of the Special services, and was the informant for discussions between Y. Konovaletz and the Japanese Military Attache. Yary was the instigator that led to the pre-WWII division of the OUN. After the division he stayed with the OUN(b) (Bandera faction). In November 1940 he made contact with Bandera with the Abwehr and set up the Vienna Bureau of thw OUN(b) and at his initiative formed the Nachtigall and Roland Battalion. After the Proclamation of Ukrainian Independence he was given the porfolio of Ambassador to Japan. In 1942 he lived in Bessarabia, actively criticised the formation of the UIA in the occupational Ukrainian press. In 1943 he was arrested by the Gestapo and was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After the war he settled in Austria in the Soviet occupational sector which has led to the suggestion that he was worked the Soviet organs. After the war he left political life.

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* (In Russian) Chuyev, Sergei - Ukrainskyj Legion - Moscow, 2006