Levko Lukyanenko
| Levko Hryhorovych Lukyanenko | |
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Levko Lukyanenko near the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev (October 2006)
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| 1st Ukraine Ambassador to Canada | |
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In office May 14, 1992 – October 15, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | post created |
| Succeeded by | Viktor Batyuk |
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August 24, 1927 Khrypivka, Horodnia Raion, Chernihiv Okruha,  USSR
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| Political party | URP |
| Other political affiliations |
KPSS (1953-1961) |
| Spouse(s) | Nadia Lukianenko |
| Children | ? |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Occupation | jurist, politician, writer |
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
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| 1st convocation | ||||
| 15 May 1990 – 18 June 1992 | ||||
| Elected as: Ukrainian Republican Party, Zaliznychyi district No.196 (People's Movement of Ukraine) | ||||
| 2nd convocation | ||||
| 9 February 1995 – 12 May 1998 | ||||
| Elected as: Ukrainian Republican Party, Novovolynsk No.68 | ||||
| 4th convocation | ||||
| 14 May 2002 – 25 May 2006 | ||||
| Elected as: Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor", Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc No.5 | ||||
| 5th convocation | ||||
| 25 May 2006 – 15 June 2007 | ||||
| Elected as: Independent, Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc No.6 | ||||
Levko Hryhorovych Lukyanenko (Ukrainian: Левко́ Григо́рович Лук'я́ненко, sometimes written as Levko Lukianenko, born 24 August 1927, Khrypivka) is a Ukrainian politician, and Soviet dissident and Hero of Ukraine. He was one of the founders of Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1976 and was elected a leader of the revived Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Ukrainian Helsinki Association, in 1988.
Lukyanenko was born on 24 August 1927 in the Khrypivka village of Horodnia Raion, in the USSR. During World War II in 1944 he was recruited in the Soviet Army and served in Austria and then in Caucasus region (cities Ordzhonikidze and Nakhichevan). In 1953 Lukianenko enrolled in the Law Department of Moscow State University and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Soon after graduation in 1958, Lukianenko was directed as a propagandist to the Radekhiv Raion Communist Party committee.
In 1959 in the time of the Khrushchev Thaw, he organized a dissident movement in Hlyniany called the Ukrainian Workers and Peasants Union along with Ivan Kandyba and others; Lukianenko defended the right of secession of Ukraine from the rest of Soviet Union, a right theoretically granted by the 1936 Soviet Constitution (Articles 17 and 125). In May 1961 he was expelled from the party, arrested, tried, and sentenced by the Lviv Oblast Court to death for idea of separatism. After 72 days his sentence was later commuted to 15 years in a prison camp. Lukianenko served his sentence at first in Mordovia and then in Vladimir. Soon after his release in 1976 he became a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In 1977 he was arrested again and was sentenced by Chernihiv Oblast Court to 10 years in a camp and 5 years of internal exile for "Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda".
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