Vasyl Stus

(1938-1985)

Ukrainian poet and dissident

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Vasyl Semenovych Stus (Ukrainian: Васи́ль Семе́нович Стус; 6 January 1938, Rakhnivka, Ukrainian SSR – 4 September 1985, Perm-36, Kuchino, Russian SFSR) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement. For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention, until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression—after having declared a hunger strike on September 4, 1985. On November 26, 2005, the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded him the highest national title: Hero of Ukraine. Stus is widely regarded as one of Ukraine's foremost poets.

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Born	6 January 1938 Rakhnivka, Haisyn Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
Died	4 September 1985 (aged 47) Perm-36, Kuchino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Zodiac	Capricorn
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