Larysa Skoryk

• Name — Larysa Skoryk • Native Name — Лариса Скорик • Office1 — Member of the Verkhovna Rada • Term Start1 — 15 May 1990 • Term End1 — 10 May 1994 • Birth Name — Larysa Pavlivna Kuzma • Born — 4 October 1939 • Birthplace — Lubaczów, Poland • Spouse — Myroslav Skoryk

Skoryk was born Larysa Kuzma on 4 October 1939 in Lubaczow (now Poland) into a family of teachers. She graduated from school No. 5, then, in 1954, she was a student of Lviv Polytechnic Institute. After she graduated from the Lviv Polytechnic Institute in 1960, she became an architect of the Donetsk branch of the "Dipromisto" Institute. In 1961, she was an architect of the Lviv branch of "Lvivteploelektroproekt". By 1963, she was an senior architect of the design institute "Dipromisto" in Lviv. In 1967, she was a graduate student of the Kyiv Engineering and Construction Institute. By 1971, she had been a senior teacher, the head of the creative workshop of the department of architectural design, and associate professor of the Kyiv State Art Institute. By 1990, she had been the professor of the Department of Architecture of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. She was a member of the NRU, namely: a member of the faction of the Congress of National Democratic Forces, a delegate to the Constituent Assembly of the NRU; vice-president of the Union of Architects of Ukraine, member of the Central Board; head of the People's Movement of Ukraine. She is also a member of the NRU, delegate of the Constituent Assembly of the NRU, member of the Central Board; head of the All-People's Movement of Ukraine. The labor team of the Kyiv State Art Institute nominated her as a candidate for People's Deputies of Ukraine. On 18 March 1990, Skoryk won 45.04% of the votes she received in the 2nd round, and was therefore elected as a member of parliament, People's Deputy of Ukraine out of 26 applicants. After that, she joined the faction of the Congress of National Democratic Forces. • Illustration — Official portrait, 1990 During her parliamentary mandate, she held the position of Chairman of the Subcommittee of the Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Culture and Spiritual Revival. In addition to her mandate as of 1990, her candidacy was nominated by the voters to the People's Deputies of Ukraine of the Verkhovna Rada of the XIII convocation, according to the results of which she took 2nd place out of 20 applicants, as she received 40.78% of the votes in the 2nd round. During the 2004 presidential elections, she spoke in support of Viktor Yanukovych.

In 2012, Skoryk presented the Development Concept of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar" developed by her own architectural workshop. According to this concept, the Museum of Memory of the Victims of "Babiny Yar" has the shape of a hexagonal "Star of David" in plan. The pre-project documentation of the construction of the museum according to the Skoryk project was approved by the Scientific and Methodological Council for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. Skoryk's development concept of the "Babyn Yar" nature reserve also received the approval of the Main Department of Urban Planning, Architecture and Design of the Urban Environment. On 27 January 2014, she got into a political scandal with the participation of Galicians. Thus, during a round table organized by the first President of independent Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, she had the imprudence to express her opinion: "I can't even say semi-educated, it's practically an uneducated horde plundering Ukraine. What freedom did they lack? Maybe freedom of speech? This is an invasion that will go down in history as an invasion of absolute barbarians." These words caused a public outcry, the result of which was the writing of an open letter by representatives of the Lviv intelligentsia to the architect and People's Deputy of the first convocation (NRU) Skoryk, in which they demanded a public apology from her, because, in their opinion, she allowed herself to "cynically humiliate and insult her own people, dividing them into "right" and "wrong", achieving extraordinary "discoveries", in particular, in anti-Galician judgments". In addition, they reminded her that thanks to their support, Skoryk received a deputy mandate in 1990. To understand the scale of the situation, it is enough to list the prominent people of that time who signed this appeal, namely: writer Roman Ivanychuk, People's Artist of Ukraine Bohdan Kozak, Director of MIOK of Lviv Polytechnic University Iryna Klyuchkovska, People's Artist of Ukraine Myroslav Otkovich, singer Sofya Fedyna, General Director of the Lviv National Art Gallery named after B. G. Voznytskyi Larisa Voznytska-Razinkova, honored cultural worker of Ukraine Roman Yatsiv, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine Nina Bichuya, laureate of the Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine Roman Lubkivskyi, laureate of the Shevchenko Prize of Ukraine Vasyl Otkovich. In March 2021, she participated in a teleconference with Moscow on the occasion of Taras Shevchenko's birthday at the Kyiv representative office of the Russian Federation of Cooperation, where she thanked the Russian authorities and said that between Russia and Ukraine there are "great relations that no one will spoil".

Her first husband was half-Swedish. The couple met and married in Tallinn during the student holidays. They divorced a year and a half later. Her second husband is the composer Myroslav Skoryk. At the time of their acquaintance he was studying at a graduate school with Dmytro Kabalevsky in Moscow. She met, becoming the first performer of his song "Don't trample the lily of the valley" on the Union television program "Blue Light". They have a child.