Geiko Olga Dmitrievna

Geiko (Matusevich) Olga Dmitrievna

Genus. in 1953 in Kyiv, philologist. Lived in Kyiv. After the arrest of her husband and M. Marinovich (founding members of the UGG) on April 26, 1977. submitted an application to the district committee to quit the Komsomol in protest against the arrest of them, as well as Rudenko and O. Tikhoy, and joined the campaign to defend those arrested.
Arrested on March 12, 1980, on charges of slandering the Soviet system. While still in the pre-trial detention cell, she wrote a statement renouncing Soviet citizenship. Sentenced by the Kyiv City Court on August 26, 1980 under Art. 187-1 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR to 3 years of penal colony. She served her sentence in Odessa in camp YUG-311/74.
On March 12, 1983, after she was given a certificate of release, at the exit to the administrative zone she was detained by three unknown men in civilian clothes and taken in a minibus to the local KGB, where she was asked to renounce her convictions. She did not agree, after which she was charged under Art. 62, part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR (“anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”). On October 10, 1983, she was sentenced by the Odessa Regional Court to 3 years in maximum security camps. She served her sentence in the women's political camp ZH-385/3 in the village of Barashevo, Tengushovsky district, Mordovia. 03/12/1986 returned to Kyiv.
In August 1987 was one of the initiators of the creation and was elected secretary of the Ukrainian Cultural Club, which was the first in Ukraine to begin discussing the “blank spots” in history. Since 1990, she was the editor-in-chief of the magazine of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church “Church and Life”, worked in the publishing department of the Institute of Archeography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in the UNIAR news agency, and edited the “Bulletin of the Liberal Party of Ukraine”.