Levko Lukyanenko

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Levko Lukyanenko (Ukrainian: Лук'яненко Левко Григорович); also Levko Lukianenko is a Ukrainian politician, and Soviet dissident.

Lukyanenko was born on August 24, 1928 in the Khrypivka village of Chernihiv Oblast. Following graduation from the Law Department of Moscow State University and after serving in the Russian army, he worked in district party committees in Lviv Oblast.

In 1959 in the time of the Khrushchev Thaw, he organized a dissident movement called the Ukrainian Workers and Peasants Union. In 1961 he was arrested, tried, and was given the death penalty, which was later commuted to 15 years in a prison camp. In 1976 he became a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In 1977 he was arrested again and was sentenced to 10 years in a camp and 5 years of exile. Lukyanenko was released in the wave of Gorbachev's perestroika, and was elected a member of Ukrainian parliament in 1990. He was the co-author of Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine and the author of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine adopted in 1991.

In 2006, Lukyanenko was a member of Ukrainian parliament, elected with the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko.

Since 2007 Levko Lukyanenko left active political life and concentrated on writing his memoirs.

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• Levko Lukyanenko, indomitable champion of the national cause
• "Perm-36" - Soviet camp for political prisoners
• Levko Lukyanenko, "Confession in death ward", in Ukrainian