Oles Honchar
| Oles Honchar | |
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Memorable coin depicting his image
the writing says "Safeguard the cathedrals of your souls" |
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| Born |
Oleksandr Bilychenko April 3, 1918 Lomivka village, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Ukraine |
| Died | December 12, 1995 (aged 77) Kiev, Ukraine |
| Resting place | Baikove Cemetery |
| Monuments | Kiev |
| Citizenship |
Soviet Union Ukraine |
| Education | Academician |
| Alma mater |
Dnipropetrovsk University Shevchenko Institute of Literature (NANU) |
| Occupation | academician, prosaic, civil activist |
| Years active | 1938 - 1995 |
| Organization |
Writer's Union of Ukraine World Peace Council |
| Notable work | The Cathedral (novel) |
| Style | Socialist realism |
| Title | Deputy of Verkhovna Rada |
| Term | 1990 - 1994 |
| Political party |
CPSU (1946-1990) Rukh |
| Movement | Ukrainian republican committee in protection of peace Society of Ukrainian Language |
| Spouse(s) | Valentyna Danylivna Honchar |
| Parent(s) | Terentiy Sydorovych Bilychenko (?-1918) Tetyana Havrylivna Honchar (?-1921) |
| Relatives | Oleksandra Sova (older sister) |
| Awards |
 Hero of Ukraine Hero of Socialist Labournumerous others (civil and military) |
Oleksandr (Oles) Terentiyovych Honchar (Ukrainian: Олесь Гончар) (April 3, 1918 in near Katerynoslav – December 12, 1995 in Kiev), was a Ukrainian and Soviet writer and public figure fighting for the reinstatement of the Ukrainian culture in the Soviet society after its abolition by the establishment. He also was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.
Honchar was born in the village of Sukhe in Kobelyaky uyezd, Poltava Governorate. The documents from the regional archives of Dnipropetrovsk Region tell that he was born in family of factory workers in a village of Lomivka that just before World War II was incorporated into the city of Dnipropetrovsk. His mother died when he was three, while his father perished on a job site later in 1941. Being left parentless, he was taken by his maternal grandparents to live in the village of Sukhe, near Kobelyaky (today in the Poltava Region). Living with his maternal grandparents, Oleksandr took their last name and, thus, became to be known as Oles Honchar (Oles is diminutive of Oleksandr).
Since 1925, Honchar studied first in his village (Sukhe) later in the village of Khorishky (today Kozelshchyna District). In 1933 he finished a seven-year school in the neighboring village of Breusivka. After finishing the school Honchar found a job with a local newspaper (Kozelshchyna District) "Expanded front". From 1933 to 1937 he studied journalism at the Kharkiv vocational school of Nikolai Ostrovsky (notorious for How the Steel Was Tempered). After the study Honchar worked as a teacher in a village of Manuilivka (today Derhachi District) near Kharkiv as well as a journalist in Kharkiv Region newspaper "Lenin's shift". In 1937 he started to publish his first works, mostly short stories, through various republican publishers: Literary newspaper, Pioneeria, Komsomolets of Ukraine, Young Bolshevik.
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