Svitlana Kyrychenko

Svitlana Tykhonivna Kyrychenko (, 31 October 1935 – 22 April 2016) was a member of the Ukrainian human rights movement. Wife of Yuriy Badzyo.

Early life and education Svitlana Kyrychenko was born on 31 October 1935 in Kyiv. In 1957, she graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. After graduation, Kyrychenko began working at the Institute of Literature of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, where she met Ivan Svitlychny, Leonid Kovalenko, Yuriy Badzyo, and Vasyl Stus, who influenced her national consciousness.

In 1979, the Kyrychenkos family's apartment was searched and Yuriy Badzyo's manuscript "The Right to Live" was confiscated. Kyrychenko addressed an open letter to the international community and the party and state leadership of the USSR with an open letter, which was repeatedly voiced in the programs of Radio Svoboda, with a biography of her husband and a summary of this work.

After returning to Kyiv, Kyrycheko took an active part in the processes of national revival, worked in the secretariat of the Democratic Party of Ukraine.

In 1993, she suffered a severe stroke, a disabled person of group I.

On November 5, 2013, the Kyiv Teachers' House hosted a presentation of Svitlana Kyrychenko's book of memoirs "People not out of fear".

Svitlana Kyrychenko died on 22 April 2016 in Kyiv.