[1] He was born on May 11 (24), 1912 in the village of Dyakivtsi (now Lityn district of Vinnytsia region) in the family of a peasant, a veteran of the Russian-Japanese war Panas Stelmakh.

After the war, at the invitation of the poet Maxim Rylsky, he became an employee of the Institute of Folklore, Ethnography and Art of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1945-1954).

And I remembered everything at once: back in the fifty-first year I was a liaison of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and I had a transplant in Kyiv when I went either to Lviv or to Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk).

Then it was my second visit to Kyiv, I fulfilled the order and spent the rest of the time left before the train at the station so as not to "shine".

Words of Doctor of Historical Sciences Volodymyr Serhiychuk, Professor of the Department of Ancient and Modern History of Ukraine, Kyiv National University.

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:[2] Laureate: By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 23, 1972, for literary and public activities, as well as in connection with the approaching 60th anniversary, Mikhail Stelmakh was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the Order of Lenin and the Sickle and Hammer Gold Medal.