He was forced to emigrate from Ukraine in 1923 due to occupation by the Soviet Russia and lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

In 1929 he joined the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and became head of their cultural and educational branch.

[3] The Ukrainian diaspora and OUN veterans in exile financed and erected in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, USA in July 1977.

[3] Then head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in exile Oleh Z͡hdanovych [wikidata] flew from Europe to attend the opening ceremony.

[3] Oleh Olzhych is the son of the famous Ukrainian writer Oleksandr Oles.