Vasyl Stus
Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident (1938-1985) · Russia · On the map · Writers · Died at 47
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]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/%D0%AE%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0_%C2%AB%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%83%D1%81%C2%BB.jpeg)
Commemorative coin issued by the National Bank of Ukraine in the honor of Stus.[13]![Commemorative stamp "70th Birth Anniversary of Vasil Stus".[14]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Stamp_of_Ukraine_ua185cvs.jpg/330px-Stamp_of_Ukraine_ua185cvs.jpg)
Commemorative stamp "70th Birth Anniversary of Vasil Stus".[14]Awards
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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.
