 In the interbrigadist press Velykanovych publishes his articles and correspondence in Polish, Spanish and Ukrainian about Taras Shevchenko's life and creativity, about the battle way of the company ("Taras Shevchenko", "The Ukrainians in the International Brigades", "Taras Shevchenko in the Aragon Front" and others).On September 4, 1938, he was mortally wounded in the battle of the Ebro river.During the Soviet era, in 1982, a monument to Yuri Velykanovych was erected in Lviv.