Skalich Semyon Fedorovich (Pokutnik)

Definition: religious preacher
Years of life: 1920-2003
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Genus. 10/09/1920 in the village. Long Drogobych district, now Lviv region. The son of many poor peasants. 4th grade education. Worked for three years. From the age of 16 he was disabled (tuberculosis of the bones, began with a cold, in 1941 - a fracture of the left shoulder). Moved on crutches. From the autumn of 1942 - Secretary of the rural Ukrainian educational society. From March 1945 he studied as an accountant in Drohobych. Arrested 03.12. 1945, 12/29/1945 convicted by the military tribunal of the Carpathian military district under paragraph "A" of Art. 541, 541-1 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR to 10 years in prison. Possession of the UPA brochure "Appeal to the population of the western regions of Ukraine" and forms of school documents were charged, although he was not a member of the national liberation movement. He served his sentence in invalid camps in Kazakhstan (Karaganda, Balkhash). For refusing to work in a stone quarry and religious preaching, he was additionally sentenced to 5 years as a "saboteur". He was kept in prison for two years, three years in a psychiatric hospital, where he was beaten, his right arm was twisted. Released 1955 via activation. In the summer of 1960 he visited a healing spring in the village. Middle in the Carpathian region and since then has connected his life with pokunitstvom (from the word "repentance" - the self-name "Slavic Church of the Holy Spirit"), which originated in the early 50s in Western Ukraine. 01/30/1980 arrested by the prosecutor's office of Drogobych on charges of "creating a group that poses a threat to the health of citizens" and "infringement on the person" (Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR, which baptized a girl in Tysmenitsa, as a result of which she fell ill). Later, he was charged with conducting "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda." During the search, about 700 poems by Skalich with a religious-nationalist content were seized. The court recognized 70 of them as anti-Soviet. 08/19/1980 sentenced by the Lviv Regional Court under Art. 62 h. 2, art. 209 part 1, art. 26 paragraph 1 part 1, 42 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR to 10 years in prison and 5 years of exile, with the recognition of his especially dangerous recidivist and confiscation of property. 09/27-02/10/1980 was in the camp ZhKh385/1 (Mordovia). 13.03-14.05.1981 was in Lvov "for re-education". During 1981-1987, he was transferred five times to the hospital of camp VS389/35 (Vsekhsvyatskaya station) due to diseases of the heart, kidneys, stomach ulcers, and spine. In July 1982, an article by the Chairman of the Committee on Religious Affairs Kuroyedov appeared in Literaturnaya Gazeta with inventions about pokutnikiv; Yakovlev, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, wrote about Skalich in the book "The CIA Against the USSR". Released 08.10. 1987 by decision of the Chusovsky City Court dated 06.10 due to chronic diseases. Rehabilitated. Died 04/29/2003 in the village. Vitvitsa, Dolinsky district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, where he was buried.
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Fund 03 (Б-2) / Inventory 1 / Case Стус Василий (Василь) Семенович
10. Article by Vasily Ovsienko "The Death of Vasily Stus" about the maximum security camp VS-389/36 in the village of Kuchino in the Chusovsky district of the Perm region, about the prisoners held there and about his meetings with Vasily Stus, published in the newspaper "Zerkalo Nedeli" No. 34 (407) for September 2002 (in Ukrainian), and its author's translation into Russian.
12 листа, 12 изображения, машинопись
Arshakyan Azat Levikovich, Astra Gunars Larionovich, Afanasov, Böll Heinrich Theodor, Berdnik Alexander (Oles) Pavlovich, Borodin Leonid Ivanovich, Vasilenkov, Galedin, Gatin, Gayauskas Balis son of Iono, Gajauskienė Irena, Gel Ivan Andreevich, Gorbal Nikolai (Mykola) Andreevich, Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeevich, Goryn Mikhail Nikolaevich, Dovgan Rita, Dolmatov, Evgrafov Nikolai Andreevich, Zhuravkov, Zhuravkov A.G., Ilkiv Vasily Ivanovich, Kalinichenko Vitaly Vasilievich, Kandyba Ivan Alekseevich, Kotsyubinskaya Mikhailina Fominichna, Kurilo Vasily Alekseevich, Litvin Yuri Timonovich, Lukyanenko Lev (Levko) Grigorievich, Malinkovich Vladimir Dmitrievich, Marchenko Valery Veniaminovich, Meshko Oksana (Ksenia) Yakovlevna, Navasardyan Ashot Tsolakovich, Nekrasov, Niklus Mart-Olav Juliusovich (Estonian: Mart Olav Niklus), Novitsky, Ovsienko Vasily Vasilievich, Ossiecki Karl von, Ostroglyad Vyacheslav, Popelyukh Valentina Vasilievna, Prikhodko Grigory Andreevich, Pchelnikov, Petkus Viktoras son of Antanas, Rebrik Bogdan Vasilievich, Reagan Ronald Wilson, Reasonable (Reasonable?) Pyotr Pavlovich, Romashov Boris, Ruban Petr Vasilievich, Rudenko, Rudenko Nikolay (Mykola) Danilovich, Saburov, Svetlichnaya Nadezhda Alekseevna, Skalich Semyon Fedorovich (Pokutnik), Snyadowski, Sokulsky Ivan Grigorievich, Stus (?) Yaroslav, Stus Vasily (Vasil) Semenovich, Stus Dmitry Vasilievich, Tarto Ann Augustovich, Tikhiy Alexey Ivanovich, Fedorov, Fedorov Yuri Pavlovich, Chentsov Vladimir Ivanovich, Chernovil (Chernovil, Chornovil) Vyacheslav Maksimovich, Shumuk Daniil (Danila) Lavrentievich
2002