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Richard Franz Marian Yary (Yaryga, a.k. as Karpat, and Riko Yary) (1898–1969) was an Ukrainian politician and military figure.

One of the highest functionaries of the OUN. Born in Rzeszów, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary). According the historian O.Kucheruk Yary was of Hungarian-Jewish descent, he was also married to Olga Rosalie Spielvogel, a Jewish woman from Peremyshlyany.

In 1912, he completed his studies in the Military Academny in Vienna. In the years of World War I (1914–18), he was an officer in the 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 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 1937-38, he became the communications officer between Yevhen Konovaletz and admiral Wilhelm Canaris of the Abwehr, and directed espionage training courses of the UVO organized by 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's influence on Stepan Bandera was the instrumental in the division of the OUN into its two factions. After the division, he stayed with the OUN(b) (Bandera faction). In November 1940, he arranged contact between Bandera and the Abwehr and set up the Vienna Bureau of the OUN(b) and at his initiative formed the Nachtigall and Roland Battalion. After the Proclamation of Ukrainian Independence he was given the portfolio of Ambassador to Japan. In 1942, he lived in Bessarabia, actively criticised the formation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army 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 returned to his own house in Austria in the Soviet occupational sector. The Soviet occupation forces made no attempt to arrest him, which has led to a suspicion that he might have worked for the Soviet intelligence. After the war, he left political life entirely.

Notes

1. О.Кучерук "Рико Ярий - загадка ОУН" Львів, ЛА "ПІРАМІДА" 2005 р.

Sources

• (In Russian) Chuyev, Sergei - Ukrainskyj Legion - Moscow, 2006
• І.К. Патриляк. Військова діяльність ОУН(Б) у 1940—1942 роках. — Університет імені Шевченко \Ін-т історії України НАН України Київ, 2004 p.261-262

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