Bohdan Horyn
Bohdan Horyn Shevchenko National Prize laureate[1] | |
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 1990–1998 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Bohdan Mykhailovych Horyn 10 February 1936 |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Party | People's Movement of Ukraine Republican Christian Party |
| Spouse | Oksana (b. 1939) |
| Alma mater | Lviv University |
| Occupation | Human rights activist, politician |
| Profession | journalist, philologist |
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Bohdan Horyn (Ukrainian: Богдан Миколайович Горинь; born 10 February 1936) is a Ukrainian human rights activist and dissident. He was a People's Deputy of the first and second convocations of the Verkhovna Rada from May 15, 1990, to May 12, 1998.[2]
His older brother is Mykhailo Horyn (1930-2013), also was a Ukrainian human rights activist and Soviet dissident.
Biography
Bohdan Horyn was born on February 10, 1936, in the village of Kniselo in the Ukrainian SSR, now Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast.[3] His father Nikolai was a worker and his mother Stefania was a homeowner.[4] Bohdan later married Oksana Ivanova, who was a doctor and pensioner.[4]
He graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv State University, Faculty of Philology in 1959.[5] He then became a teacher of the Ukrainian language literature, while also working at the House of Folk Creativity in Lviv.[3] After teaching, from 1962 to 1965, he worked as a research associate at the Lviv Museum of Ukrainian Art, while simultaneously distributing samizdat materials as a member of the Sixtiers movement.[3] In 1965, he was arrested and then sentenced in a Lviv Regional Court for "anti-Soviet activities" to three years of imprisonment, which he served at the Temlag gulag, which was located within Yavas in the Russian SFSR.[5] While in prison, he became friends with Opanas Zalyvakha, who was a Ukrainian dissident artist.[3]
After his release, he took on a variety of odd jobs, until 1976 when he became a senior research associate at the Lviv Art Gallery, which he served at until 1989.[3] During this time, he became one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union in 1988, and for the next two years headed the party's organization for Lviv Oblast.[3] In 1990—1997 he was a member of the Ukrainian Republican Party Board and Council. He also chaired the party's organization in Lviv Oblast from 1990 to 1992.[3] In 1997, he joined the central leadership of the Republican Christian Party, and then in 2003 the central leadership of the People's Movement of Ukraine.[3]
In the 1990 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he became part of the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine. Upon joining, he became par of the "Narodna Rada" (People's Council) faction.[3] He was again elected for the 2nd convocation in the 1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election, this time joining the electoral bloc "Derzhavnist" (Statehood).[3]
From 1994 to 1996 he was the director of the Institute for Diaspora Studies.[5]
In 2019 he won the Shevchenko National Prize in the category "Journalism".[6]
References
- ^ Лауреати Національної премії [National Award Winners]. Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 13 June 2025.
- ^ Горинь Богдан Миколайович (in Ukrainian). party.civicua.org. 2013-01-17. Archived from the original on 2007-10-28.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Горинь Богдан Миколайович - Енциклопедія Сучасної України". esu.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 30 January 2026.
- ^ a b "Горинь Богдан Миколайович". dovidka.com.ua. Retrieved 30 January 2026.
- ^ a b c "ГОРИНЬ БОГДАН МИКОЛАЙОВИЧ". resource.history.org.ua. Retrieved 30 January 2026.
- ^ "Президент на Тарасовій горі вручив Національні премії України імені Тараса Шевченка". Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2019-03-11.