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Vasyl Stus
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Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident (1938–1985)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1938-01-06 ) January 6, 1938, Rakhnivka , Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
- Died
- September 4, 1985 (1985-09-04) (aged 47), Perm-36 , Kuchino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
- Citizenship
- Soviet (until 1978), stateless (after 1978)
- Alma mater
- Donetsk National University
- Occupation
- poet
- Known for
- poems, human rights activism with participation in the Ukrainian Helsinki Group
- Movement
- Sixtiers , Soviet dissidents
- Spouse
- Valentyna Popeliukh
- Children
- Dmytro
- Awards
- Shevchenko National Prize , Antonovych Prize
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Rakhnivka
- Place of death
- Perm-36
- Occupation
- teacher
- Educated at
- Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University
- Languages spoken
- Ukrainian
- Field of work
- literary criticism
- Image
- Stus KGB photo 1980 (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Soviet Union
- Convicted of
- anti-Soviet agitation
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- Commons category
- Vasyl Stus
- date of birth
- 1938-01-06
- date of death
- 1985-09-04
- place of burial
- Baikove Cemetery
- manner of death
- homicide
- name in native language
- Василь Семенович Стус
- ethnic group
- Ukrainians
- writing language
- Ukrainian
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Encyclopedic overview
Vasyl Semenovych Stus (Ukrainian: Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; January 6, 1938 – September 4, 1985) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression—after having declared a hunger strike on September 4, 1985. On November 26, 2005, the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded him the highest national title: Hero of Ukraine. Stus is widely regarded as one of Ukraine's foremost poets.
Biography
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