Mykola Rudenko

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Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Микола Данилович Руденко
Transl. : Mykola Danylovyč Rudenko
Transcr. : Mykola Danylowytsch Rudenko
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Николай Данилович Руденко
Transl .: Nikolaj Danilovič Rudenko
Transcr .: Nikolai Danilowitsch Rudenko

Mykola Danylowytsch Rudenko (born December 19, 1920 in Jurivka , Luhansk Oblast , Ukraine , † April 1, 2004 in Kiev ) was a Soviet - Ukrainian dissident and human rights activist and author of poetry and prose .

Portrait of Rudenko on an envelope from the Ukrainian Post on his 90th birthday in 2010

Life

Rudenko fought as a soldier in the Red Army in World War II and was a member of the CPSU from 1938 , from which he was expelled in 1974 for criticizing Marxism . Between 1947 and 1950 he was editor of the literary magazine Dnipro . In November 1976 Rudenko was co-founder and head of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group . In February 1977 he was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison and five years in exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda".

After his release from prison in 1987 he was allowed to leave the Soviet Union under pressure from democratic forces in the West and emigrated first to Germany and then to the United States . There he worked for Radio Free Europe and Voice of America . In 1988 his Soviet citizenship was revoked. On September 7, 1990, he returned to the now independent Ukraine and was rehabilitated. He died in Kiev in 2004 and was buried in the Baikowe Cemetery.

Honors

For his participation in the German-Soviet War he received the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Great Patriotic War, 1st class. Mykola Rudenko was awarded the Taras Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine in 1993 for his novel "Orlov Strahl" . The Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma gave Mykola Rudenko on 19 December 2000 the title of Hero of Ukraine .

literature

Selection:

  • Ekonomīčnī monolohy Rudenko, Mykola - Munich: Sučasnīst ', 1978
  • Za gratamy; Rudenko, Mykola - Munich: Sučasnīst ', 1980
  • Orlova balka, Toronto: Smoloskyp, 1982.
  • Behind bars; Rudenko, Mykola - Thun: Kuratorium Geistige Freiheit, 1983

Web links

Commons : Mykola Rudenko  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mykola Rudenko on "olexa.org.ua" ; accessed on March 24, 2015
  2. ↑ Obituary Mykola Rudenko on "ukrweekly.com" ; accessed on March 24, 2015
  3. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 1193/1996 of November 29, 1996 , accessed March 24, 2015


personal data
SURNAME Rudenko, Mykola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudenko, Mykola Danylowytsch (full name); Руденко, Микола Данилович (Ukrainian); Rudenko, Mykola Danylovyč (transliteration)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Ukrainian dissident, civil rights activist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Jurivka, Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2004
Place of death Kiev