Yuriy Lytvyn

Yuriy Tymonovych Lytvyn (Ukrainian: Юрій Тимонович Литвин) was a Ukrainian lyrical and prose writer, journalist, human rights activist, and Soviet dissident.

Biography Lytvyn was born in a village of Ksaverivka, Vasylkiv Raion on 26 November 1934 in a family of rural teachers. His dad a veteran of the World War II, after the Nazi Germany's occupation of Ukraine, served in the Soviet partisan detachments of Sydir Kovpak and died from wounds in 1944. Later Lytvyn with his mother moved to village Barakhty, Vasylkiv Raion. After finishing a seven-year school, he enrolled in mining-industrial school in Shakhty (now in Rostov Oblast), but after getting sick he left the school and returned on his village. In 1953 Lytvyn was imprisoned at the construction of Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station (at that time Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Station) after being accused of theft. Soon after being released in 1955 he was arrested again on 14 April 1956 being accused in created of underground nationalistic organization "Group for Liberation of Ukraine" and convicted to 10 years imprisonment. His punishment Lytvyn served in camps of Medyn (Kaluga Oblast) and Vikhorevka (part of Ozerlag) as well as the so-called "Mordva camps for politicals" (Dubravlag). While being imprisoned Lytvyn wrote poems in Ukrainian and Russian languages and in 1965 finished his collection "Tragic gallery" (Russian: «Трагическая галерея») (a story about crimes of…Citește mai mult

Lytvyn, Yurii Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine Bazhan, O. Yuriy Lytvyn. Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. Vol.10. Institute of History of Ukraine. "Naukova dumka". Kiev, 2009. ISBN 966-00-1028-1 Ovsiyenko, V. Yuriy Lytvyn. Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine. Yuriy Lytvyn. Oleksa Tykhyi Fund website.