About Ivan Svitlychny
Lived 1929 – 1992 (aged 63). Ivan Svitlychny was a Russian and Ukrainian writer, poet and translator.
Ivan Oleksiyovych Svitlychnyi (Svetlichny; ; 20 September 1929 – 25 October 1992) was a Ukrainian poet, literary critic, and Soviet dissident.
Biography Ivan Svitlychnyi was born on 20 September 1929 in Polovynkyne, Luhansk Oblast to a family of farmers.
Svitlychnyi was released in January 1983. He returned in a gravely ill condition, having suffered a stroke in prison camp. For the last three years of his life he could not move or speak, and was cared for by his wife, Leonida Svitlychna.
Ivan Svitlychnyi died on 25 October 1992. He is buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery.
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Ukrainian soviet writer and poet (1929-1992)
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Ivan Svitlychny was born on 20 September 1929 in Tolokivka.
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Ivan Svitlychny died on 25 October 1992 in Kyiv.
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Ivan Svitlychny was a writer, poet and translator.
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Ivan Svitlychny was Russian and Ukrainian.
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