Oleksa Hirnyk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Ukrainian dissident
Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1912
Place of Birth: Bohorodchany, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 21-Jan-1978
Profession: activist
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Oleksa Hirnyk
- Oleksa Mykolajovych Hirnyk (Ukrainian: ?????? ??????????? ?i????, Oleksa Mykolajovyc Hirnyk; 28 March 1912 – 21 January 1978) was a Ukrainian Soviet dissident, an engineer by profession, who burned himself to death as an act of protest against Soviet suppression of the Ukrainian language, culture and history.
- The act was quickly covered up by the Soviet authorities and remained unknown to general populace for decades.
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