Vasyl Stus

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Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident (1938-1985)

WritersLived 1938 to 1985 · aged 47

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Vasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement.

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Monument on the site of a house in which Stus lived from 1965 to 1972

The house in Chornobylska street, Kyiv, where Stus lived in 1979-1980

KGB photo of Stus after his second arrest, 1980

The prison cell at Perm-36 where Stus died on 4 September 1985

Grave of Vasyl Stus

Commemorative coin issued by the National Bank of Ukraine in the honor of Stus.[13]

Commemorative stamp "70th Birth Anniversary of Vasil Stus".[14]

Awards 4

Antonovych prize

Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State

Hero of Ukraine

Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class

In their orbit 1

ChildDmytro Stus

Connected to Vasyl 6

Zbigniew BrzezinskiAlso won Antonovych prize

Sergei BubkaAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State

Kyrylo BudanovAlso won Hero of Ukraine

Timothy SnyderAlso won Antonovych prize

Roman ShukhevychAlso won Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State

Olexander SyrskyiAlso won Hero of Ukraine

About this person

Vasyl Semenovych Stus was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention until his death in Perm-36 - then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression - after having declared a hunger strike on September 4, 1985. On November 26, 2005, the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded him the highest national title: Hero of Ukraine. Stus is widely regarded as one of Ukraine's foremost poets.