Dotsenko Rostislav Ivanovich

Genus. on April 19, 1931 in Kyiv; Ukrainian; Before his arrest, he was a 3rd year student at the Faculty of Philology of Kyiv State University. Arrested on February 14, 1953. on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda. Convicted in the spring of 1953. Kyiv Regional Court under Article 54-1 Part 2 for 8 years in a penal colony. He was held in the Kuneevsky ITL. In custody, he was again arrested on April 15, 1956. Sentenced by the Kuibyshev Regional Court on August 24, 1956 under Art. 58-10 part 1, 58-11 to 7 years in the labor camp for participation in the underground organization of prisoners “Group of Revolutionary Marxists”. He served his sentence in the Far East, in Taishet and Mordovian camps. Released in 1963 returned to Kyiv. In 1965 graduated from university. Worked in the editorial office of foreign literature at Goslitizdat. He was fired from his job in 1972, and after a long search, he got a job at the Republican Agricultural Library. Since 1988 - in creative work. Member of the National Union of Writers (1986), All-Ukrainian Society of Political Prisoners and Repressed Persons. Winner of literary awards named after. M. Rylsky (1993), N. Lukash (2000). Awarded the Order of Merit, III degree (2007).
Died on October 24, 2012.