# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vasyl-ovsienko
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:31:02.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vasyl-ovsienko"
name: "Vasyl Ovsienko"
slug: "vasyl-ovsienko"
description: "Vasyl Vasyliovych Ovsienko was a Ukrainian writer, human rights activist, and Soviet dissident who worked as a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and founded the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group."
tagline: "Ukrainian writer, human rights activist, and dissident"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F_%D1%84%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D1%83_%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_07.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1949-04-08"
deathDate: "2023-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.807308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Vasyl Ovsienko"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Vasyl Ovsienko"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "वासिल ओव्सिएन्को"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Овсієнко Василь Васильович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump