Oleksa Mykolajovych Hirnyk (Ukrainian: Олекса Миколайович Гiрник, Oleksa Mykolajovyč Hirnyk; 28 March 1912 – 21 January 1978) was a Ukrainian nationalist and Soviet dissident, an engineer by profession, who burned himself to death as an act of protest against Soviet suppression of the Ukrainian language (russification), culture and history.[1] The act was quickly covered up by the Soviet authorities and remained unknown to general populace for decades.[1]
^ ab(in Ukrainian) Євген Гірник: КДБ казало, що батько загинув у ДТП Yevhen Hirnyk: KGB said that his father died in an accident, BBC Ukrainian (21 January 2013)
Oleksa Mykolajovych Hirnyk (Ukrainian: Олекса Миколайович Гiрник, Oleksa Mykolajovyč Hirnyk; 28 March 1912 – 21 January 1978) was a Ukrainian nationalist...
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nomination materialized. On 19 November 1989 the remains of Vasyl Stus, Oleksa Tykhy and Yury Lytvyn were brought back to Kyiv and reburied at the Baikove...
in protest against Russification, including Vasyl Makukh in 1968 and OleksaHirnyk in 1978. Following the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and the emergence...
of a tragically unsuccessful drop of Soviet paratroopers. In 1978, OleksaHirnyk burned himself to death, on a hill near Shevchenko's tomb in protest...
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