Sviatoslav Karavanskyi

Sviatoslav Karavanskyi
Святослав Караванський
Born(1920-12-24)24 December 1920
Odesa, Ukraine
Died17 December 2016(2016-12-17) (aged 95)
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Education
Political partyOrganisation of Ukrainian Nationalists
MovementOrganisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, Soviet dissidents
Convictions
Criminal penalty
  • 25 years imprisonment (1945, 1965)
  • 3 years imprisonment, 7 years corrective labour (1970)
Military career
Allegiance
Battles / wars

Sviatoslav Iosypovych Karavanskyi (Ukrainian: Святосла́в Йо́сипович Карава́нський; 24 December 1920 – 17 December 2016) was a Ukrainian linguist, lexicographer, writer, and Soviet dissident. A member of the Red Army and the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists during World War II, Karavanskyi served a total of 31 years in Soviet prisons, and was regarded as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.

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