Volodymyr Yavorivsky

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Yavorivsky (Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Яворівський) is a Ukrainian poet, writer, journalist and politician.

Volodymyr Yavorivsky Володимир Яворівський
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office May 2002 – November 2014[1]
Personal details
Born	October 11, 1942 Teklivka, Jugastru county, Romania
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland"[2]
Spouse(s)	Halyna Oleksandrivna (1946, actress)[3]
Children	Son Svyatoslav (1964, journalist), daughter Olesya (1978)[3]
Residence	Kyiv, Ukraine
Alma mater	Odessa State University
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Poet, writer, journalist
Signature
Website	www.yavorivskyi.org.ua/ (in Ukrainian)

Biography

Born in 1942 in the Crijopol region of Jugastru county (today part of Vinnytsia Oblast), Yavorivsky graduated from the Odessa State University as a specialist on "Ukrainian language and literature". He worked as an editor on the local radio, as a newspaper reporter ("Zaporizka pravda", "Literaturna Ukraina", "Prapor Yunosti"), a scriptwriter on Lviv television, a literary consultant, a referent of the Writer's Union of Ukraine and as the department chief and deputy editor to Vitchizna Magazine.

In the late 1980s, Yavorivsky began his active political career. He was a people's deputy of the last Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1989–1991 and became one of the founders of People's Movement of Ukraine.

Volodymyr Yavorivsky took active part in defending the rights of the Chernobyl accident victims.

In the 4th Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2002–2006), Volodymyr Yavorivsky belonged to the Our Ukraine fraction and in the 5th and 6th (present) Rada convocation to the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc fraction.[4] In the 2012 parliamentary election he was (re)-elected into parliament by winning a constituency in Kyiv for Batkivschyna.[5]

Yavorivsky combined parliamentary functions with the position of the Writer's Union of Ukraine Chairman (appointed October 2001).[3]

In the 2014 parliamentary election Yavorivsky again tried to win a constituency seat in Kyiv for Batkivschyna, but failed this time having finished fourth in his constituency with 13.72% of votes.[6][7] The winner of the constituency, Boryslav Bereza, gained 29.44% of the votes.[7]

Published works

Short story collections

• A yabluka padayut (The apples are falling), 1968
• Гроно стиглого винограду (A cluster of mature grapes), 1971

Sketch collections

• Kryla vygostreni nebom (Wings sharpened by heaven), 1975
• Tut na zemli (Here on the ground), 1977
• I v mori pamyatayu dzherelo (Remembering the source even at the sea), 1980
• Pravo vlasnogo imeni (The right of the own name), 1985
• Shcho my za narod takyi? (What a people are we?), 2002

Stories

• Z vysoty veresnya (From the height of September), 1984
• Vichni Kortelisy, 1984

Novels

• Lantsiugova reakciya (Chain reaction), 1978 about Chernobyl
• Oglyansya z oseni, 1979
• Avtoportret z uyavy (Biography of Catherine Bilokur), 1980
• Maria z polynom u kintsi stolittya, 1988, about the Chernobyl disaster
• Kryza (Crisis), 2000

References

1. Five factions form Verkhovna Rada coalition, Interfax-Ukraine (27 November 2014)
   Poroshenko guesses parliamentary coalition to be slightly larger, Interfax-Ukraine (27 November 2014)
   Governing coalition formed in parliament, UNIAN (27 November 2014)
2. (in Ukrainian)Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc election list, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
3. (in Ukrainian)Biography, Довідники про сучасну Україну
4. (in Ukrainian)Profile, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
5. Residents of Kyiv vote for opposition representatives in single-seat constituencies, Kyiv Post (November 1, 2012)
6. (in Russian) Short bio, LIGA
7. (in Ukrainian) Candidates and winner for the seat in constituency 213 in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Archived December 9, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, RBK Ukraine

External links

• Official site of Volodymyr Yavorivsky (in Ukrainian)