Yaroslav Lesiv

Yaroslav Lesiv

Yaroslav Lesiv (Ukrainian: Ярослав Лесів) (January 3, 1945 - October 10, 1991) was a Ukrainian poet, priest, and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group

Yaroslav Lesiv was born in the village of Luzhkiv, (Ukrainian Лужків), in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Western Ukraine.

In 1965, he joined the Ukrainian National Front, an underground organization working for Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union. On March 29, 1965, his membership in this organization was discovered, and Lesiv was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

He carried out a hunger strike

On October 3, 1977, Lesiv joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.

Religious Life

Yaroslav Lesiv was active in the Ukrainian Catholic Church. From the late 1980s, Lesiv was working towards the restoration of the Ukrainian Catholic church.

In 1988, Lesiv was ordained as a priest in the Ukrainian Catholic Rite.

In 1989, Lesiv visited Moscow twice - including a hunger strike protesting the illegal status of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

In the night between October 9 and 10, 1991, Yaroslav Lesiv was killed in an automobile accident. He is buried in Bolekhiv, Ukraine.

References

* [http://archive.khpg.org.ua/index.php?id=1113914508 Biography]
* [http://storinka-m.kiev.ua/user_page.php?u_id=194 Amateur website]


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