Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Yavorivsky ( uk, Володимир Олександрович Яворівський; 11 October 1942 – 17 April 2021) was a

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poet, writer, journalist and politician.

Biography

Born in 1942 in the Crijopol region of Jugastru county (today part of

Vinnytsia Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast ( uk, Ві́нницька о́бласть, translit=Vinnytska oblast; ; also referred to as Vinnychchyna — uk, Ві́нниччина) is an oblast of western and southwestern Ukraine. Its administrative center is Vinnytsia. ...

), Yavorivsky graduated from the Odessa State University as a specialist on "Ukrainian language and literature". He worked as an editor on the local radio, as a newspaper reporter ("Zaporizka pravda", "Literaturna Ukraina", "Prapor Yunosti"), a scriptwriter on

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television, a literary consultant, a referent of the

Writer's Union of Ukraine The National Writers' Union of Ukraine ( uk, Національна спілка письменників України) (''НСПУ'') is a voluntary social-creative association of professional writers, poets, prose writers, playwrights, crit ...

and as the department chief and deputy editor to ''Vitchizna'' Magazine. In the late 1980s, Yavorivsky began his active political career. He was a people's deputy of the last

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in 1989–1991 and became one of the founders of

People's Movement of Ukraine The People's Movement of Ukraine ( uk, Народний Рух України, Narodnyi Rukh Ukrayiny) is a Ukrainian political party and first opposition party in Soviet Ukraine. Often it is simply referred to as the Movement ( uk, Рух, R ...

. Volodymyr Yavorivsky took active part in defending the rights of the

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victims. In the 4th

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of Ukraine (2002–2006), Volodymyr Yavorivsky belonged to the Our Ukraine fraction and in the 5th and 6th Rada convocation to the

Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc ( uk, Блок Юлії Тимошенко, БЮТ; Blok Yuliyi Tymoshenko, BYuT) was the name of the bloc of political parties in Ukraine led by Yulia Tymoshenko since 2001. In November 2011, the participation of blocs ...

fraction. In the 2012 parliamentary election he was (re)-elected into parliament by winning a

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for Batkivschyna. Yavorivsky combined parliamentary functions with the position of the

Chairman (appointed October 2001). In the 2014 parliamentary election Yavorivsky again tried to win a constituency seat in Kyiv for Batkivschyna, but failed this time having finished fourth in his constituency with 13.72% of votes.Short bio
LIGACandidates and winner for the seat in constituency 213 in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
,

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The winner of the constituency,

Boryslav Bereza Boryslav Yukhymovych Blacher-Bereza ( uk, Борислав Юхимович Бляхер-Береза; born 13 June 1974) is a former member of the Ukrainian parliament and a former spokesperson for Right Sector (2014). In the 2019 Ukrainian parl ...

, gained 29.44% of the votes. He died on the 17th April 2021, aged 78.Умер писатель и общественный деятель Владимир Яворивский

Published works

Short story collections

* A yabluka padayut (The apples are falling), 1968 * Гроно стиглого винограду (A cluster of mature grapes), 1971

Sketch collections

* Kryla vygostreni nebom (Wings sharpened by heaven), 1975 * Tut na zemli (Here on the ground), 1977 * I v mori pamyatayu dzherelo (Remembering the source even at the sea), 1980 * Pravo vlasnogo imeni (The right of the own name), 1985 * Shcho my za narod takyi? (What a people are we?), 2002

Stories

* Z vysoty veresnya (From the height of September), 1984 * Vichni Kortelisy, 1984

Novels

* Lantsiugova reakciya (Chain reaction), 1978 about

Chernobyl Chernobyl ( , ; russian: Чернобыль, ) or Chornobyl ( uk, Чорнобиль, ) is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about no ...

* Oglyansya z oseni, 1979 * Avtoportret z uyavy (Biography of Catherine Bilokur), 1980 * Maria z polynom u kintsi stolittya, 1988, about the

Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuc ...

* Kryza (Crisis), 2000

References

External links

Official site of Volodymyr Yavorivsky
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