Among them were poets Ivan Drach, Mykola Vinhranovskyi [uk], and Dmytro Pavlychko, literary critic Ivan Dziuba, as well as an unsuccessful attempt by Les Tanyuk and Alla Horska to perform Mykola Kulish's comedic play This is How the Goose Died [uk].

These events both agitated Lviv's young intelligentsia, leading Kosiv to found an equivalent to Kyiv's Artistic Youths' Club.

Many young members of the club, including Bohdan and Mykhailo Horyn, Ivan Gel, and Mykhaylo Osadchy, would later go on to become Soviet dissidents.

It took on a more ideological character than its Kyiv equivalent, arguing for the restoration of an independent Ukrainian state rather than human rights concerns.

[8] He was re-elected during the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, and served as head of the Religious Subcommittee on the Cultural and Spiritual Committee.

[9] In 2024 Kosiv expressed opposition to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy retaining power amidst martial law in Ukraine and the Russian invasion, and referred to him ruling beyond the five-year term proscribed under non-martial law conditions as an "arbitrary seizure of power".