Makoviychuk Grigory Trofimovich

Makoviychuk Grigory Trofimovich

Genus. in 1935 in the village Ivcha, Litinsky district, Vinnitsa region, worker at KrAZ, lived in Kremenchug. Since 1968, he constantly listened to foreign radio stations, recorded programs on a tape recorder, and told the contents of the programs to his friends. In 1972, he began writing leaflets by hand and posting them around the city. They talked about repressions against Ukrainian activists, about the famine of 1933, about the arrests of the intelligentsia. Arrested on January 31, 1973 at work. On May 22, 1973, he was convicted by the Poltava Regional Court under Part I of Art. 62 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR ("anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda") to 3 years of imprisonment in maximum security camps. He served his sentence in the Mordovian camp ZH-385/19, village. Forest. 01/31/1976 released.
1995 Dismissed from work due to staff reduction. How a pensioner got a job as a watchman. Since 1989 - activist of the Ukrainian Language Society, People's Movement of Ukraine. He took part in rallies, distributed propaganda materials of democratic forces, and was a member of election commissions during all elections. After a stroke in 2001 limited his activity.