Mykhailo Stelmakh

Mykhailo Panasovych Stelmakh (; – September 27, 1983) was a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and playwright. Member of the Writers' Union of the USSR, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since March 29, 1978), Hero of Socialist Labour (May 23, 1972). Father of playwright Yaroslav Stelmakh. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 6th-10th convocations.

Other evidence also indirectly indicates this: Mykhailo Stelmakh was surprisingly well acquainted with the activities of the OUN-UPA and at least sympathized with this organization. Words of Doctor of Historical Sciences Volodymyr Serhiychuk, Professor of the Department of Ancient and Modern History of Ukraine, Kyiv National University. Taras Shevchenko: "Mykhailo Stelmakh would write truthfully about the OUN-UPA. He even tried to do it at the time, even within the strict framework of the party's ideological task. But he was not given the opportunity to tell at least a part of the truth about the UUN-UIA., when he got acquainted with the report of the head of the Main Committee of the USSR K. Polonnyk to the secretary of the Central Committee of the CP (b) U I. Nazarenko dated October 2, 1952: Shevchenko National Prize (1980; for the novel Four Fords) Order of Friendship of Peoples (21 May 1982)