As an editor, he helped Olha Kobylianska, Vasyl Stefanyk, Marko Cheremshyna, Bohdan Lepkyi, and Denys Lukiianovych establish themselves in literature.
[1] Published:[1][3] In 1910, he compiled a valuable collection of "Materiialy do zhytiepysy Osypa Yuriia Hordynskoho-Fedkovycha" (vol.
[1] Makovei's is the author of literary and critical essays on Olha Kobylianska, Andrii Chaikovskyi, Tymotei Borduliak, Pavlo Hrabovskyi, and Stepan Kovaliv, as well as a series of reviews and commentaries.
[1][3] In 2017, on the 150th anniversary of Osyp Makovei's birth, Ukrposhta issued a postage stamp dedicated to this date.
On 23 August 2017, a solemn ceremony of special redemption of the postal miniature was held in the district "People's House" in Yavoriv.