Zenon Kossak


Zenon Kossak was an activist in the Ukrainian militant nationalist movement for independence from interwar Poland.
Kossak was born in Drohobych in Galicia. He studied law at Lviv University and was one of the organizers of the nationalist movement in Galicia.
He was a member of the Ukrainian Military Organization in the late 1920s where he directed the 'combat', then the organizational, activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in 1939 as a member of its Home Executive. He became deputy commander of the Carpathian Sich National Defense Organization in Carpatho-Ukraine. He was killed in action by Hungarian troops in Solotvyna, near Bukshtyn, in Transcarpathia.