Mykhaylo Osadchy
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Mykhaylo Osadchy | |
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| Born | March 22, 1936 |
| Died | July 5, 1994 (aged 58) Lviv, Ukraine |
| Occupation | writer, poet |
| Language | Ukrainian |
Mykhaylo Osadchy (Ukrainian: Осадчий Михайло Григорович; March 22, 1936, in Kurmany, Nedryhailiv Raion, Sumy Oblast, UkSSR – July 5, 1994, in Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian journalist, poet, writer, and dissident.
Mykhaylo Osadchy graduated from Lviv University in 1958.[1] He taught there from 1960 to 1965. He was arrested in 1965, spent 8 months waiting for a court decision and was finally sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1966. He was tried together with Mykhailo Horyn, Horyn's brother Bohdan Horyn, and M. Zvarychevska.[1]
Osadchy was arrested for the second time January 1972.[2] That September he was sentenced to seven years of labour camp and three years of exile.[2]
He was able to return to teaching at Lviv University in 1990. In 1992, Osadchy became a member of the Writer's Union of Ukraine.
