Yuriy Shukhevych

Yuriy-Bohdan Romanovych Shukhevych
Юрій-Богдан Романович Шухевич
Yuriy Shukhevych in 2010.
Head of Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence
In office December 1990 – August 1994
In office October 2006 – October 2014
Personal details
Born	(1933-03-28) 28 March 1933 (age 83) Ohladów, Lwów Voivodeship, Poland
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	Radical Party
Other political affiliations	Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence (December 1990 till October 2014)
Awards	the tite of Hero of Ukraine

Yuriy-Bohdan Romanovych Shukhevych (Ukrainian: Ю́рій-Богда́н Рома́нович Шухе́вич, born 28 March 1933, Ohladów, Lwów Voivodeship, Poland) is a Ukrainian politician, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, political prisoner, son of Roman Shukhevych. He is a former long serving leader of the Ukrainian National Assembly – Ukrainian National Self Defence. Shukhevych spent over 30 years in the Soviet prisons and concentration camps. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Shukhevych was elected into the Ukrainian parliament for Radical Party.

Yuriy Shukhevych was born on March 28, 1933 in the town of Ohladów, Lwów Voivodeship, Poland (now Lviv Oblast of Ukraine). In 1944 when the West Ukraine was re-occupied by the Red Army, he was arrested with his mother and sent to Siberia. In 1946 Shukhevych was taken away from his mother to orphanage for children of enemies of the people in Donets Basin. He ran away twice back home, but later was taken back again. Already in 1948 started court proceedings against Shukhevych and when he turned 16, Shukhevych was convicted by the Soviet regime for 10 years in the Vladimir Central Prison for political position of his father who planned and also participated in terrorist activities and assassinations for the aim of ethnic cleansing against the Poles.