The Union for the Liberation of Ukraine (, СВУ; Soyuz vyzvolennia Ukrayiny, SVU) was a political organization that was established on 4 August 1914 in Lemberg, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. The organization was established by Ukrainian emigrants from the Russia-held Dnieper Ukraine and who were socialist by their political views representing such political parties like Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), Ukrainian Social Democratic Workers Party (USDRP), "Spilka" Socialist-Democratic ("Fellowship"). The organization was headed by its presidium that consisted of Andriy Zhuk, Volodymyr Doroshenko, Oleksandr Skoropys-Yoltukhovskyi, and Markian Melenevskyi. See also Persecuted bandurists Union for the Freedom of Ukraine trial References Sources Roman Malko, "Music from the shadows", Zerkalo Nedeli, September 14–20, 2002. in Russian, in Ukrainian. , The Voices of the Dead - Stalin's Great Terror in the 1930s, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007, . Kobzarstvo Ukrainian independence movement 1910s in Ukraine History of Lviv 1914 establishments in Austria-Hungary 1918 disestablishments in Austria-Hungary Ukrainian political parties in Austria-Hungary Establishments in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Defunct secessionist organizations Anti-Russian sentiment