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Oleksandr (Oles) Pavlovych Berdnyk (; November 27, 1926, officially December 25, 1927 - March 18, 2003) was a Ukrainian science fiction writer,
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, Red Army soldier during
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, and a political prisoner in Soviet camps. He wrote more than 20 novels and short stories that have been translated into many languages, including English, German, French, Russian, and Hungarian. He has been described as the most influential classic writer of Ukrainian science fiction. He was a founding member of the
Ukrainian Helsinki Group The Ukrainian Helsinki Group () was founded on November 9, 1976, as the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords on Human Rights () to monitor human rights in Ukraine. The group was active until 1981 when all ...
and a leader of the Ukrainian Humanist Association " Ukrainian Spiritual Republic."


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Ukrainian Helsinki Group The Ukrainian Helsinki Group () was founded on November 9, 1976, as the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords on Human Rights () to monitor human rights in Ukraine. The group was active until 1981 when all ...
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Soviet dissidents Soviet dissidents were people who disagreed with certain features of Soviet ideology or with its entirety and who were willing to speak out against them. The term ''dissident'' was used in the Soviet Union (USSR) in the period from the mid-1960 ...
* List of Slavic Native Faith's organisations *
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* Mykhailo Melnyk


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1926 births 2003 deaths Chevaliers of the Order For Courage, 1st class People of the Revolution on Granite Ukrainian science fiction writers Ukrainian fantasy writers Ukrainian alternate history writers Ukrainian dissidents Ukrainian male poets Ukrainian speculative fiction writers Soviet human rights activists Cosmists Transhumanists Ukrainian philosophers 20th-century theologians 21st-century theologians {{Ukraine-writer-stub