Vasyl Stus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasyl Stus

Ukrainian poet, publicist and dissident

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1938

Place of Birth: Rakhnivka, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 04-Sep-1985

Profession: writer, poet, translator, human rights activist, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Vasyl Semenovych Stus (Ukrainian: ????´?? ????´????? ????; 6 January 1938, Rakhnivka, Ukrainian SSR – 4 September 1985, Perm-36, Kuchino, Russian SFSR) was a Ukrainian poet, translator, literary critic, journalist, and an active member of the Ukrainian dissident movement.
For his political convictions, his works were banned by the Soviet regime and he spent 13 years in detention, until his death in Perm-36—then a Soviet forced labor camp for political prisoners, subsequently The Museum of the History of Political Repression—after having declared a hunger strike on September 4, 1985.
On November 26, 2005, the Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko posthumously awarded him the highest national title: Hero of Ukraine.
Stus is widely regarded as one of Ukraine's foremost poets.