Viacheslav Chornovil
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Viacheslav Chornovil Вячесла́в Чорнові́л |
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| Chairman of the Lviv Regional Council | |
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In office April 1990 – April 1992 |
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| Succeeded by | Mykola Horyn |
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| Born | December 24, 1937 Yerky, Kiev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
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| Died | March 25, 1999 (aged 61) Boryspil, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine
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| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | People's Movement of Ukraine |
| Spouse(s) | Olena Antoniv Atena-Svyatomyra Pashko (died 20 March 2012, 81 years of age) |
| Children | Andriy Chornovil, Taras Chornovil |
| Alma mater | University of Kiev (journalist) |
| Occupation | Politician and Soviet dissident |
| Religion | Ukrainian Orthodox |
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Order of State Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise Shevchenko Prize (1996) |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
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| 1st convocation | ||||
| May 15, 1990 – May 10, 1994 | ||||
| Elected as: People's Movement of Ukraine, Lviv Oblast, Shevchenko electoral district N.264 | ||||
| 2nd convocation | ||||
| May 11, 1994 – May 12, 1998 | ||||
| Elected as: People's Movement of Ukraine, Ternopil Oblast, Podillia electoral district N.357 | ||||
| 3rd convocation | ||||
| May 12, 1998 – March 26, 1999 | ||||
| Elected as: People's Movement of Ukraine, No.1 | ||||
Viacheslav Chornovil (Ukrainian: Вячесла́в Макси́мович Чорнові́л) (December 24, 1937 in Yerky, Katerynopil Raion, Kiev Oblast – March 25, 1999, near Boryspil, Kiev Oblast) was a Ukrainian politician. A prominent Ukrainian dissident in the Soviet Union, he was arrested multiple times in the 1960s and 1970s for his political views. A long-time advocate of Ukrainian independence, he was one of the most prominent political figures of the late 1980s and early 1990s who paved the path of the contemporary Ukraine to its independence.
Chornovil enrolled into the University of Kiev initially at the College of Philology (faculty), but after the first semester transferred to the College of Journalism. In 1958 due to conflict in the university he took a break from studying and went for construction project in Zhdanov of a blast furnace and later worked for the "Kiev Komsomolets". Chornovil was a member of the Komsomol of Ukraine. He graduated in 1960 with honors and defended his diploma with a thesis "Publicistic work of Borys Hrinchenko".
Chornovil worked for various newspapers and in television in Lviv and Kiev between 1960-64. In 1964 he moved to Vyshhorod and participated in the construction of the Kiev HES (see Kiev Reservoir). During the same year Chornovil also enrolled into the aspirantura (see Candidate of Sciences) of the Kiev Pedagogical Institute, but was not allowed to study. On September 4, 1965 together with Ivan Dzyuba and Vasyl Stus, Chornovil conducted protest in the movie theater "Ukraina" at the premier of the film "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". After that he was fired out of his job, searched by authorities. For refusing to stand witness and testify at the trials of the Horyn brothers, Chornovil was given three months of forced labor.
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