Roman Ivanychuk

Roman Ivanychuk studied at Lviv University. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is literature. Employment is recorded with Lviv University. Positions recorded include People's Deputy of Ukraine. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, medal of 25 years of Ukrainian independence and anniversary medal for the 20 years of independence of Ukraine.

• Honorific Prefix — Hero of Ukraine Merited Culture Worker • Name — Roman Ivanychuk • Office — People's Deputy of Ukraine • Term Start — 15 May 1990 • Term End — 22 April 1994 • Predecessor — Position established • Successor — Les Tanyuk • Constituency — Lviv Oblast, Drohobych • Born — 27 May 1929 • Birthplace — Tracz, Poland (now Trach, Ukraine) • Died — 17 September 2016 • Place of death — Lviv, Ukraine • Resting Place — Lychakiv Cemetery, Lviv • Party — People's Movement of Ukraine • Other Party — Democratic Bloc • Education — University of Lviv

Roman Ivanovych Ivanychuk was born in the village of Trach, Ukraine, which was then part of the Second Polish Republic. It is now in Ukraine's western Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast. His family was opposed to the occupation of Galicia by Nazi Germany, and his brother joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Ivanychuk later said that he would have done the same if he had been old enough to fight. Ivanychuk began studying the Ukrainian language at the University of Lviv in 1948. Upon entering the university, he was denounced by staff for refusing to join the Komsomol and wearing a vyshyvanka. He was eventually expelled from the university and conscripted into the Soviet Army, serving from 1950 to 1953. He graduated from the University of Lviv in 1957, and worked as a school teacher between 1957 and 1963. Like many other Ukrainian linguists at the time, he taught at rural schools throughout Ukraine. Ivanychuk began publishing short stories and novels in 1958. After 1963, he worked as an editor of the Zhovten magazine until 1990.

During the 1989–1991 Ukrainian revolution Ivanychuk supported the People's Movement of Ukraine, the leading opposition group against the Soviet government. He was one of the co-founders of the Taras Shevchenko Society for the Ukrainian Language. Ivanychuk was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic during the 1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election from the city of Drohobych. He joined the Democratic Bloc, and he was additionally head of the subcommittee on Art, Creativity and the Revival of the Ukrainian Language within the Verkhovna Rada Cultural and Spiritual Committee.

In 1995, Ivanychuk became a professor at the University of Lviv, teaching there until his death. He died in Lviv on 17 September 2016. He was buried in Lychakiv Cemetery on 19 September.

The authorities additionally record the headings Roman Ivanovych Ivanychuk, Ivanychuk, R. (Roman Ivanovych), 1929-2016, Ivanychuk, Roman Ivanovich, 1929-2016 and Ivanytchouk, Roman, 1929-2016. His recorded language was Ukrainian. One child is recorded: Natalija Ivanytsjoek.