Gorskaya Alla Alexandrovna

Other names: Ukrainian Alla Oleksandrivna Gorska
Definition: Ukrainian Soviet artist, dissident, activist in the human rights movement of the 1960s in Ukraine.
Years of life: 1919-1970
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Genus. in 1929 in Yalta. Ukrainian Soviet artist, dissident, activist in the human rights movement of the 1960s in Ukraine. She was one of the organizers and an active member of the Sovremennik Creative Youth Club (1959-1964) in Kyiv. In 1962, G., together with V. Simonenko and L. Tanyuk, discovered at the Lukyanovsky and Vasilkovsky cemeteries, in Bykovna, burial places of those shot by the NKVD in the 1930-1940s, about which a statement was made to the Kiev City Council (“Memorandum No. 2"). As a member of the “sixties” group, she took an active part in the Ukrainian human rights movement. She financially and morally supported the families of political prisoners and corresponded with them. In April 1968, she signed a letter of protest from 139 scientific and cultural figures to the leaders of the USSR in connection with the arrests and closed trials of dissidents. Died on November 28, 1970 in Vasilkov.

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Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Сверстюк Евгений Александрович
3. Article by Sverstyuk E.A. “Before the entrance to the tunnel” in the newspaper “Independence Ukraine” No. 2 (23) for January 1992, p. 3, about his arrest on January 12, 1972, in Ukrainian.
Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Гель Иван Андреевич
13. Article by Gel I., Gorynya M., Gorynya B. and Zalyvakho P. “The question remains open” in the newspaper “Moscow Literator” No. 3 (574) dated January 26, 1990. in defense of V. Korotich.