''The Cathedral'' (Ukrainian: ''Собор'') is a 1968 novel by

Oles Honchar Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiyovych Honchar ( uk, Олесь Терентійович Гончар; 3 April 1918 – 12 December 1995) was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukraini ...

. It was Honchar's best known novel but also saw him come under censure by the

Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1 ...

regime. The book was initially well received and massively popular among students. After sudden criticism of the novel, a group of literature students organized a defense of the novel, leading to surveillance and reprisals from the KGB. A planned translation to Russian was halted and the Ukrainian edition withdrawn. The titular cathedral was based on the story of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in

Novomoskovsk, Ukraine Novomoskovsk ( uk, Новомосковськ, Novomoskóvs’k, )is a city and municipality in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (province) of Ukraine and the administrative center of Novomoskovsk Raion (district). As of January 2022 Novomoskovsk's popul ...

.Kamusella op.cit. The Russian translation was published in

Roman-Gazeta ''Roman-Gazeta'' (russian: Роман-газета, literally: "Novel-Newspaper") was a special kind of literary magazine in the Soviet Union. The magazine was started in 1927. It was issued irregularly (4 to 24 issues per year, 202 issues in tota ...

issue 7, 1987.

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Honchar's "Sobor" to be published in Ukrainian, by Dr. Roman Solchanyk
Ukrainian-language books 1968 novels Ukrainian novels Book censorship in the Soviet Union Censored books Novels set in Ukraine Novels set in India Fiction set in 1963 Novels set in the 1960s {{1960s-novel-stub

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