Ivan Dziuba

He was also the Co-Chief of editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine.

Ivan Dziuba studied at Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University. The recorded working language is Ukrainian and Russian. The field of work recorded is literary studies, literary criticism and activism. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are article. Employment is recorded with National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Positions recorded include Minister of Culture of Ukraine. Distinctions recorded are Antonovych prize, Hero of Ukraine, Order of the State, medal of 25 years of Ukrainian independence and State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology.

• Honorific Prefix — Hero of Ukraine • Name — Ivan Dziuba • Office — Minister of Culture of Ukraine • Term Start — 17 November 1992 • Term End — 19 August 1994 • President — Leonid Kravchuk • Prime Minister — * Leonid Kuchma • Vitaliy Masol • Predecessor — Larysa Khorolets • Successor — Dmytro Ostapenko • Born — 26 July 1931 • Birthplace — Mykolaivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union • Died — 22 February 2022 • Place of death — Kyiv, Ukraine • Awards — Order of State Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class

• Illustration — Dziuba in 2004 Born into a peasant family, Dziuba spoke Russian language until 17 years of age. In 1932, his family, fleeing from the famine, moved from their home village to the nearby workers' village Novotroyits'ke for a short time. Later, they moved to Olenevski Quarry (now Dokuchaievsk), where Dziuba finished secondary school No. 1. He graduated from Donetsk Pedagogical Institute, and pursued postgraduate studies in the Shevchenko Institute of Literature. His work was first published in 1959. As a representative of Ukrainian writers from the Sixtiers generation, in September 1966 Dziuba delivered a speech at an unsanctioned memorial meeting near the site of Babyn Yar massacre in Kyiv. He underlined the need to fight against antisemitism and called both Jews and Ukrianians for reconciliation. Viktor Nekrasov and Borys Antonenko-Davydovych also spoke at the event, as a result of which the KGB accused all three of "nationalism" and put them under increased surveillance. At the end of 1965, Dziuba wrote his work Internationalism or Russification?, first published in London in 1968 and re-published in 1990 in the 5–7 issues of Motherland magazine (Ukrainian: Вітчизна), dealing with the problems threatening national relations in socialist society, which he sent to the Soviet Communist authorities. A special commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine inspected the text and decided that it was "lampoons on the Soviet reality, the national policy of the CPSU and the practice of communist construction in the USSR". Authorities accused Dziuba of undermining Soviet friendship of peoples, and fueling hatred between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples. In 1972, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and 5 years in exile. Later, he asked for pardon and after 18 months in prison he was pardoned and hired to work at the newspaper of Antonov Serial Production Plant. After the change of political situation in the Soviet Union and transition to the independent Ukraine, Dziuba became a co-founder of the People's Movement of Ukraine. Beginning in 1991, Dziuba was the head publisher of the Suchasnist magazine. He was a laureate of the Shevchenko Prize, O. Biletsky Prize, Antonovich Fund International Prize, and Volodymyr Vernadsky Prize. During his latter years he condemned the attempts to politicize the Babyn Yar memorial site. Dziuba died in Kyiv on 22 February 2022, at the age of 90. In December 2022, a street in Kyiv was named after him.

The authorities additionally record the heading Ivan Mykhailovych Dziuba. His recorded languages were Ukrainian and Russian.

Ivan Dziuba worked in literary studies, literary criticism, activism, philology and opinion journalism. He was employed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Recorded position is Minister of Culture of Ukraine. He belonged to National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and PEN Ukraine.

Ivan Dziuba is recorded as writer, politician, opinion journalist, human rights defender and philologist.