Mychajlo Horyn
Mychajlo Mykolaiowytsch Horyn ( Ukrainian Михайло Миколайович Горинь ; born June 17, 1930 in Kniselo , Lviv Voivodeship , Poland , † January 13, 2013 in Lviv , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian human rights activist , dissident and politician. He was the great-nephew of Mykola Lebed .
Life
Mychajlo Horyn was born in the village of Kniselo in what is now Shydachiv Raion in the Ukrainian Lviv Oblast . His father was a district leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and was therefore arrested by the Polish authorities. In December 1944 Mychajlo was arrested by the NKVD together with his mother, who was also politically active , and was supposed to be deported to Siberia. However, they managed to escape on the way there and hid with relatives in the neighboring villages. In 1949 he made the Abitur in Chodoriw and from 1949 to 1954 he studied at the Institute for Logic and Philosophy at the University of Lemberg . In 1953 he was expelled from the university due to his refusal to join the Komsomol , but thanks to the intercession of Yevhen Lasarenko ( Євген Костянтинович Лазаренко ) he was able to finish his studies. He had connections with the underground OUN, which produced and sold leaflets.
After completing his studies, Horyn worked between 1954 and 1961 as a teacher of logic, psychology, the Ukrainian language and literature as well as headmaster at various schools in Drohobych Rajon and as a school inspector in the Strilky school district . From 1961 he worked in the scientific field. Among other things, he set up the first Soviet experimental theoretical and practical laboratory for psychology and physiology of work in a company in Lviv and became the author of a number of teaching materials for teachers and articles on the psychology of work.
In 1962 he established contacts with Ivan Switlychnyj ( Іван Олексійович Світличний ), Ivan Dsyuba , Ivan Dratsch and other representatives of the national liberation movement and organized the distribution of political literature and samizdat published abroad . He was arrested on August 26, 1965 on charges of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda and sentenced to 6 years in a labor camp on April 18, 1966 by the Lviv Regional Court together with other dissidents. He spent his sentence in a gulag in Mordovia . Subsequently, Horyn was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group .
On December 3, 1981, Horyn was arrested again and sentenced to 10 years in prison camps and 5 years in exile. In 1987 he was pardoned and in 1990 he was rehabilitated. After Ukraine gained sovereignty, he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada between May 15, 1990 and May 10, 1994 . From May 1992 to October 1995 he was chairman of the Ukrainian Republican Party . He died at the age of 82 in Lviv and was buried in the Lychakiv Cemetery there.
Honors
Mychajlo Horyn received numerous honors. Including:
- August 19, 1998 Order of Merit of Ukraine , III. class
- June 14, 2000 Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
- November 26, 2005 Order of Merit of Ukraine , Class II
- January 16, 2009 Ukrainian Order of Freedom
- Honorary citizen of Lviv
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Obituary Mychajlo Horyn on zaxid.net; accessed on July 28, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c In Memoriam Mychajlo Horyn on IstPravda; accessed on July 28, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ^ Biography Mychajlo Horyn on territoryterror; accessed on July 28, 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ a b c Biography Mychajlo Horyn in the Virtual Museum of the Dissident Movement of Ukraine; accessed on July 28, 2016 (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horyn, Mychajlo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Горинь, Михайло Миколайович (Ukrainian); Horyn, Mychajlo Mykolaiowytsch (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian human rights activist dissident and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kniselo , Lviv Voivodeship , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 2013 |
| Place of death | Lviv , Ukraine |