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Vasyl Symonenko

1935 – 1963

About this person

Wikipedia Summary

Vasyl Andriiovych Symonenko was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, and activist of the dissident movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Ukrainian literature of the early 1960s. In the opinion of the Museum of the Dissident Movement in Kyiv, the works and early death of Vasyl Symonenko had an enormous impact on the rise of the national democratic movement in Ukraine.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
January 8, 1935
Lubny Raion
Date of death
December 13, 1963
Cherkasy
Citizenship

Soviet Union

Occupations & fields
poetjournalistshort story writerwriter
Field and occupation
ukrajinský básník, novinář a disident
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