Dmytro Klyachkivsky

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Semenovych and the family name is Klyachkivsky.

Dmytro Klyachkivsky
Klyachkivsky in the 1930s
NicknamesKlym Savur, Okhrim, Bilash
Born(1911-11-04)4 November 1911
Zbarazh, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary (now Ternopil Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine)
Died12 February 1945(1945-02-12) (aged 33)
Orzhiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Rivne Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine)
AllegianceUkrainian Insurgent Army
CommandsNorthern Operational Group
Conflicts

Dmytro Semenovych Klyachkivsky (Ukrainian: Дмитро Семенович Клячківський; 4 November 1911 – 12 February 1945), also known by the pseudonyms Klym Savur, Okhrim, and Bilash, was a commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and the first head-commander of UPA-North. He was responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Poles from Volhynia.

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