Melnik Mikhail Spiridonovich

Definition: Historian, poet, member of the Ukrainian public group for promoting the implementation of the Helsinki agreements
Years of life: 1944-1979
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Genus. in 1944 in the village. Ordyntsi, Vinnitsa region. After graduating from the Faculty of History at Kyiv University, he worked as a teacher. Entered graduate school at the Institute of History of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences. Historian, poet, participant in the human rights movement in Ukraine since the 1960s, read his poems at a demonstration near the Shevchenko monument on May 22, 1971. Forced to quit graduate school, expelled from the CPSU in 1973. In 1972, he protested in writing against the repressions that befell the Ukrainian intelligentsia. After this, he was forced to resign from school “of his own free will.” He worked as a watchman at a brick factory. In 1978, he became a correspondent for the Ukrainian public group for promoting the implementation of the Helsinki Agreements. He carefully hid his many years of work on a manuscript on the history of Ukraine. His entire archive was confiscated during a search on 03/06/1979, after which he committed suicide on 03/10/1979

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