Friends!

Friends, today is 130 years from the birth of Vasyl Atamanyuk known by the pseudonym of Vasyl Yablunenko. He was an excellent writer. Unfortunately, Atamanyuk died early, at the age of 40, became a victim of Stalin's terror, as well as other prominent representatives of Ukrainian intelligentsia of the time.

He was born in a peasant family in the village Yabluniv, now Ivano-Frankivsk region. The family had five children, lived very poorly. He studied at the Kolomyia gumnasium, and in the First World War he moved to Vienna, where he continued to study. There Atamanyuk published his poetry book. During the service in the Austrian army he entered the law faculty of Lviv University. Later he became a translator in Presbyuro and then in the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen. At the time of the Central Rada Vasyl was secretary of the newspaper "Struggle", head of "work school".

In 1922 Atamanyuk moved to Kyiv, was one of the organizers of the literary union "Western Ukraine". He was arrested on the 31st of January, 1933 in Kiev. Accused that "Atamanyuk was one of the leaders of the Kiev chain of " Ukrainian military organization. " They told that his organization "Western Ukraine" was aimed at organizing counterrevolutionary rebel forces.

On the 1st of October, 1933 he was sentenced to five years in prison and sent to a concentration camps "Karlag", later - "Solovki". He asked for resquing, still believed that justice can prevail, "After the arrest of the incredible efforts of several investigators who mocked over me, I have been beaten for twenty days, was not allowed to sleep and go, forced to constantly run, threatened about various torture and so on. I was brought to the weak-willed unconsciousness, and I was forced to confess under dictation to nonexistent crimes, "- he wrote.

Instead, special three of NKVD on 9th October, 1937 changed his sentence. It sounded^ "Atamanyuk-Yablunenka Vasily has to be shot."

Vasyl Atamanyuk was shot in Sandarmokh November 3, 1937.

Today we have to remember all those people, whose names are not currentlypopular, but they are engraved in the history of Ukraine and bloody shot lists.