# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/oleksa-hirnyk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:41:58.063Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/oleksa-hirnyk"
name: "Oleksa Hirnyk"
slug: "oleksa-hirnyk"
description: "Oleksa Mykolayovych Hirnyk was a Ukrainian nationalist and Soviet dissident, an engineer by profession, who burned himself to death as an act of protest against Soviet suppression of the Ukrainian language (russification), culture and history. The act was quickly covered up by the Soviet authorities and remained unknown to general populace for decades."
tagline: "Ukrainian dissident (1912–1978)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Oleksa_Hirnyk.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1912-03-28"
deathDate: "1978-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.895250666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksa_Hirnyk"
    title: "Oleksa Hirnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksa_Hirnyk"
    title: "Oleksa Hirnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksa_Hirnyk"
    title: "Oleksa Hirnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksa_Hirnyk"
    title: "Oleksa Hirnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%C5%82eksa_Hirnyk"
    title: "Ołeksa Hirnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%BA%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гирнык, Алексей Николаевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksa_Hirnyk"
    title: "Oleksa Hirnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гірник Олекса Миколайович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2497414"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump