Volodymyr Yavorivsky

Volodymyr Yavorivsky studied at Odesa University. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is prose writer and journalist. Positions recorded include People's Deputy of Ukraine and Special Guest of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Distinctions recorded are medal of 25 years of Ukrainian independence and Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class.

• Illustration — Yavorivsky in 2019 Born in 1942 in the Crijopol region of Jugastru County (today part of Vinnytsia Oblast), Yavorivsky graduated from the Odesa State University as a specialist on "Ukrainian language and literature". He worked as an editor on the local radio, as a newspaper reporter ("Zaporizka pravda", "Literaturna Ukraina", "Prapor Yunosti"), a scriptwriter on Lviv television, a literary consultant, a referent of the Writer's Union of Ukraine and as the department chief and deputy editor to Vitchizna Magazine. In the late 1980s, Yavorivsky began his active political career. He was a people's deputy of the last Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1989–1991 and became one of the founders of People's Movement of Ukraine. Volodymyr Yavorivsky took active part in defending the rights of the Chernobyl disaster victims. In the 4th Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2002–2006), Volodymyr Yavorivsky belonged to the Our Ukraine fraction and in the 5th and 6th Rada convocation to the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc fraction. In the 2012 parliamentary election he was (re)-elected into the Verkhovna Rada by winning a constituency in Kyiv for Batkivschyna. Yavorivsky combined parliamentary functions with the position of the Writer's Union of Ukraine Chairman (appointed October 2001). In the 2014 parliamentary election Yavorivsky again tried to win a constituency seat in Kyiv for Batkivschyna, but failed this time having finished fourth in his constituency with 13.72% of votes. The winner of the constituency, Boryslav Bereza, gained 29.44% of the votes. He died on 17 April 2021, aged 78.

• Z vysoty veresnya (From the height of September), 1984 • Vichni Kortelisy, 1984

• Lantsiugova reakciya (Chain reaction), 1978 about Chornobyl • Oglyansya z oseni, 1979 • Avtoportret z uyavy (Biography of Catherine Bilokur), 1980 • Maria z polynom u kintsi stolittya, 1988, about the Chornobyl disaster • Kryza (Crisis), 2000