Oles Berdnyk

Ukrainian & Soviet science fiction writer, essayist, founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, dissident and actor (1926-2003)

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Lived 1926–2003, aged 77

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1926–2003
Aged 77
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Updated 2026-08-11

Oleksandr (Oles) Pavlovych Berdnyk was a Ukrainian science fiction writer, futurist and globalist, philosopher and theologian, public figure, Red Army soldier during World War II, and a political prisoner in Soviet camps. He wrote more than 20 novels and short stories that have been translated into many languages, including English, German, French, Russian, and Hungarian. He has been described as the most influential classic writer of Ukrainian science fiction.