Vasyl Khaynas

Vasyl Vasylovych Khaynas (; 21 February 1919 – 17 April 1999) was a Ukrainian historian. Khaynas was active in youth movement in Transcarpathia during and after World War II, and joined partisan detachment. He was a youth organizer and newspaper editor in the years just after the war. He would go on to have a long academic career as an historian, writing several works related to the anti-fascist struggle in Transcarpathia and the process of unification of Transcarpathia with Soviet Ukraine.

Youth He was born in on 21 February 1919, hailing from a peasant family. He studied at village folk school, but his teachers advised him to try to get admitted into a city school.

Post-war years After Liberation, Khaynas was a delegate of the 26 November 1944 First Congress of People's Committees of Transcarpathian Ukraine (which elected the as the government of the region and called for unification with Soviet Ukraine). Khaynas joined the Communist Party of Transcarpathian Ukraine in 1944. He worked as the head of the culture section of the newspaper during 1944 and 1945.