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Place of Birth: Nova Basan, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine
About Vasyl Lopata
- Vasyl Lopata (Ukrainian: ?????? ?????? ????????; born April 28, 1941) is a Ukrainian artist and prose writer.
- He is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (1971), National Union of Writers of Ukraine (2006).
- People's Painter of Ukraine (2001), laureate of Shevchenko National Prize (1993), Oles Honchar Literary Prize (2007), Lesya Ukrainka Literary and Art Prize (2008). In collaboration with B.
- Maximov he designed the first Ukrainian hryvnia. Lopata was born in Nova Basan, Bobrovytsia Raion.
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