Borys Steklyar

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Borys Yukhymovych Steklyar

Novohrad-Volynskyi – 18 January 2018, Rivne) was colonel of Committee for State Security of USSR, he was one of the main specialists in combating Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Rivne region.[1]

In 2017 he was accused of the murder of two or more persons in March 1952, including artist and member of Volyn regional

OUN propaganda Referenty Nil Khasevych and two of his colleagues.[2]
Steklyar insisted he was innocent of the murder.

Biography

Born in a family of soldier of

Novohrad-Volynskyi
, where his father served.

He went to

29th Army in the city Rzhev, where he was selected in the regimental reconnaissance platoon, in which he fought until December 1942, until got seriously injured in the left leg while performing special tasks.[3]

He fought at

Stalingrad as squad commander. From March 1943 to February 1944 was studied in 1st Leningrad Artillery School (Konstantinovsky Artillery School [uk]), which at that time was located in Engels
. He graduated with honors, with specialization in artillery reconnaissance and got lieutenant rank.

After graduation appointed commander of the reconnaissance platoon of

Order of the Great Patriotic War, First Class. Met Victory in Germany (in Wittenberg). In May 1945 he was appointed company commander of SMERSH in Berlin.[3]

He studied at

People's Commissariat of Defense [uk] SMERSH, from which he graduated with honors. After he was sent to Rivne
to serve in organs of state security.

He retired in 1976 as Head of the KGB of Rivne Oblast. During the subsequent 33 years has led the international agency "Intourist" in city and oblast of Rivne.

Killing of Nil Khasevych

UN.[4][5][6] Therefore, the Soviet state security decided to "stop his anti-Soviet activities". Steklyar participated in the final part of the operation.[4] According to the words of Steklyar, on March 4, 1952, in the village Sukhivtsi [uk
] Khasevych and two more insurgents were located in an underground bunker. After an offer to surrender, a grenade was thrown into the bunker.

26 April 2017 Prosecutor General of Ukraine launched an investigation into the murder of Nil Khasevych by Borys Steklyar.[2][5] Steklyar made clear he did not feel guilty.[4]

On August 25, 2016, in Rivne District Administrative Court held a hearing in case Boris Steklyar against the Office of the SBU in Rivne region, which, contrary to the Law of Ukraine "On access to archives of repressive totalitarian communist regime in 1917-1991 years," asked the court to compel the Office SBU Rivne region not to provide his personal file No.2095 for review. The claim was left without consideration.[7]

Later analysis of the personal file and archive documents revealed that KGB colonel Boris Steklyar who participated in the liquidation of the underground artist of UPA Nil Khasevych in 1960 performing operational duties against Ukrainian nationalists in Soviet concentration camps. There is about the order of the Chairman of the KGB lieutenant general Vitaliy Nikitchenko No.85 dated 17 July 1964 to encourage the Office of the KGB in Rivnenskoiy area.

Among the award for skillfully prepared measures to debunk the ideology of Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists and show the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR during the Soviet period spent in Dubravny corrective labor camp Mordovia ASSR is also the name of Boris Steklyar.

In this camp served terms of imprisonment famous Ukrainian dissidents and former rebels Svyatoslav Karavansky, Ivan Gel, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Vasyl Levkovych, Yuri Badzio, Michaylo Soroka (died in camp), Joseph Slipy and others.

As historian of Liberation Movement Research Center, the former deputy director of the SBU archive Vladimir Birchak stated, "measures", in which Steklyar participated in the camps likely have been something more serious than "showing the achievements of the USSR".[8]

He died on 18 January 2018.[9]

Honours and awards

Books

  • Чекисты рассказывают ... Книга 6 / Т. Гладков, Б. Стекляр. Рассказы полковника Бондаря. — С. 121—178. — Москва : Советская Россия, 1985. — 272 с. (in Russian)
  • Со щитом и мечом : очерки и статьи. — Львов : Каменяр, 1988. — 203,[2] с. — (in Russian)
  • Ніл Хасевич — провідник Зот // (in Ukrainian)

External links

References

  1. Fakty i Kommentarii
    . Retrieved 2017-04-26.(in Russian)
  2. ^
    Ukrayinska Pravda
    . 2017-04-26. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  3. ^
    HUR MOD of Ukraine. Archived from the original
    on 2017-04-27. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
  4. ^ a b c Телефонный разговор с Борисом Стекляром (in Russian). Проект «Я помню». 2014-12-11. Retrieved 2017-04-30.
  5. ^ a b "Ukraine investigates 94-year-old Jewish veteran over nationalist's death in 1952", The Guardian (retrieved May 10, 2017)
  6. ^ "Графіка в бункерах УПА. Альбом дереворитів, виконаних в Україні в роках 1947 - 1950 мистця українського підпілля Ніла Хасевича - Бей-Зота та його учнів (1952)" (retrieved May 10, 2017)
  7. Ukrayinska Pravda
    . 2016-08-28. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  8. Ukrayinska Pravda
    . 2017-06-02. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
  9. ^ Светлая память Archived 2018-02-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)