Bohdan Horyn

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Bohdan Horyn
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office 1990–1998
Personal details
Born	Bohdan Mykhailovych Horyn (1936-02-10) 10 February 1936 Kniselo, Lwów Voivodeship, Second Polish Republic
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	People's Movement of Ukraine Republican Christian Party
Spouse	Oksana (b. 1939)
Alma mater	Lviv University
Occupation	Human rights activist, politician
Profession	journalist, philologist
Awards

Bohdan Horyn (Ukrainian: Богдан Миколайович Горинь; born (1936-02-10)10 February 1936 in Kniselo, Lwów Voivodeship) is a Ukrainian human rights activist and dissident. He was a People's Deputy of the first and second convocations of the Verkhovna Rada from May 15, 1990 to May 12, 1998.

His older brother is Mykhailo Horyn (1930-2013), also was a Ukrainian human rights activist and Soviet dissident.

Biography

Bohdan Horyn was born on February 10, 1936 in the village of Kniselo, Zhydachiv raion, Lviv region.

He graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv State University, Faculty of Philology in 1959. He became a philologist and a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature.

In 1988 he was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union.

In 1990—1997 he was a member of the Ukrainian Republican Party Board and Council.

From 1994 to 1996 he was the director of the Institute for Diaspora Studies.

In 2019 he won the Shevchenko National Prize in the category "Journalism".