Bohdan Horyn

Bohdan Horyn (; 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.

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. His father Nikolai was a worker and his mother Stefania was a homeowner. Bohdan later married Oksana Ivanova, who was a doctor and pensioner. He then became a teacher of the Ukrainian language literature, while also working at the House of Folk Creativity in Lviv.