Oksana Franko

[5] In 1976, together with human rights activists Myroslav Marynovych, Mykola Matusevych, Olha Heiko-Matusevych, and Nadiya Svitlychna, she visited the grave of the artist and dissident Alla Horska at the Berkovets cemetery.

[2] In 1992, together with her son Andrii, she organized the Ivan Franko Family Museum in Kalush, for which she donated her own house.

[1][2] Franko was the author of over 200 scientific publications, monographs, and 20 reviews of the archival heritage of prominent Ukrainian archaeologists, including Fedir Vovk, Danylo Shcherbakivskyi, Vikentiy Khvoyka, Serhii Hamchenko, Volodymyr Hrinchenko, Mykola Makarenko, and Dmytro Yavornytskyi.

For the first time, she named and published materials of archaeologists repressed and banned in the 1930s and 1940s: Mykola Makarenko, Petro Kurinnyi, Yevheniia Kozlovska, Vadym Shcherbakivskyi, and Fedir Kozubovskyi.

[1][2] She defended her doctoral dissertation "Naukova ta suspilno-politychna diialnist Fedora Kindratovycha Vovka" (2000).