Ivan Kovalenko
Ivan Kovalenko Juchymowytsch ( Ukrainian Іван Юхимович Коваленко , Russian Иван Ефимович Коваленко / Ivan Yefimovich Kovalenko * 13. January 1919 in Lezky , Ukrainian People's Republic ; † 18th July 2001 in Boyarka , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian poet and Soviet dissident .
Life
Ivan Kovalenko graduated from the University of Kiev in 1950 and subsequently taught Western languages at schools in Chernihiv and Boyarka. Ivan Kovalenko was a writer from the 1960s Ukrainian generation. Through his works abroad or as samizdat published secretly in Ukraine, he was considered a voice of human and national dignity in Ukraine. Because of his criticism of the Soviet system, he was imprisoned in a gulag in the Urals between 1972 and 1977 , where he was incarcerated with other dissidents such as Ivan Switlychnyj , Ihor Kalynez and Vladimir Bukovsky . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , he was rehabilitated in 1991.
Since the Soviet law enforcement authorities confiscated and destroyed most of Ivan Kowalenko's works, few of his poems have survived. Some of his poems were saved by his wife Iryna Kovalenko, whom she memorized during her visits to prison. Since the independence of Ukraine two collections of poetry have been published by him. A youth art festival in Ukraine was named after him.
Web links
- Entry on Ivan Kovalenko in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)
- Ivan Kovalenko on the website Virtual Museum - Dissident Movement in Ukraine (Ukrainian)
- Article about Ivan Kovalenko on the website of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group - Political Education - The History of the Human Rights Movement (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Ivan Kowalenko on ivan-kovalenko.info ; accessed on March 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Via Ivan Kovalenko on the festival's official website; accessed on March 11, 2017 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Kovalenko, Ivan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kovalenko, Ivan Juchymowytsch (full name); Коваленко, Іван Юхимович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian author and Soviet dissident |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lezky , Ukrainian People's Republic |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 2001 |
| Place of death | Boyarka , Ukraine |