Osyp Nazaruk was a Ukrainian lawyer, journalist, and civic and political leader. He was born in 1883 in the Buchach region of what is today Ternopil' oblast', Ukraine. In 1915 he was director of the press bureau the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. A member of the Ukrainian National Rada, he was pat of a delegation to Het'man P. Skoropads’kyi in 1918 to obtain military aid for the Western Ukrainian People's Republic. Late in 1922 he was sent to Canada to raise loans for the government-in-exile. After undergoing a political conversion from socialism to Het'manite conservatism, he moved to the United States, where he edited the weekly Sich in Chicago and infused the Sich organization there with a Het'manite ideology. Nazaruk wrote numerous books, including memoirs (such as "Slidamy USS", "Nad Zolotoyu Lypoiu" and "Rik na Velykyi Ukraini") and historical novellas.