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(2007)
Award Ivan Franko in information activities (2007, 2018)
International Award Volodymyr Vynnychenko (2011)
Art Аward ''Kyiv'' (2014)
Viacheslav Chornovil Prize for the best nonfiction in journalism (2014)
Gold Medal of Ukrainian Journalism (2009) , signature = , website = , portaldisp = Serhii Shevchenko ( uk, Сергій Володимирович Шевченко), born August 4, 1960, in Kramatorsk,

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), is a Ukrainian writer, journalist and editor.

Biography

Shevchenko was born in the town of Kramatorsk, in Ukraine (at that time – the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union). After finishing secondary school in 1977, he enrolled into the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 1982, Shevchenko graduated from the Journalism faculty of University as a journalist. From 1982 to 1985, he worked at the

Bila Tserkva Bila Tserkva ( uk, Бі́ла Це́рква ; ) is a city in the center of Ukraine, the largest city in Kyiv Oblast (after Kyiv, which is the administrative center, but not part of the oblast), and part of the Right Bank. It serves as the admi ...

newspaper as a correspondent. Then he made a career in the

Security Service of Ukraine The Security Service of Ukraine ( uk, Служба безпеки України, translit=Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrainy}) or SBU ( uk, СБУ, link=no) is the law enforcement authority and main intelligence and security agency of the Ukrainian ...

(press-officer, editor, executive editor, head of research unit of the Institute of State Security Problems). Colonel, a veteran of military service. 2010–2012 – head of Department of the State Service of Ukraine on Drugs Control (activities – international relations, public consultation, interaction with the media). After 2012 creative and social activities, Kyiv. Shevchenko works in the field of literature since the 2000s. He is the author of a number of books about the tragedy Solovki,

Sandarmokh Sandarmokh (russian: Сандармох; krl, Sandarmoh) is a forest massif from Medvezhyegorsk in the Republic of Karelia where possibly thousands of victims of Stalin's Great Terror were executed. More than 58 nationalities were shot and bur ...

, and also numerous articles in the periodical press. August 2, 2012, he has been stopped from taking part in the Days of Remembrance for the Victims of the Terror in the Sandarmokh Clearing in

Karelia Karelia ( Karelian and fi, Karjala, ; rus, Каре́лия, links=y, r=Karélija, p=kɐˈrʲelʲɪjə, historically ''Korjela''; sv, Karelen), the land of the Karelian people, is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for ...

. He was one of a delegation from Ukraine travelling to Sandarmokh for annually held memorial events which mark the anniversary of the unleashing of what is known as the Great Terror (1937—1938). It is not clear what the grounds are for refusing Serhiy Shevchenko entry to Russia. Shevchenko is a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (1994), the National Writer's Union of Ukraine (2011), the National Union of Ukrainian ethnographers (2015).

Books

*, 2006. *″Golden Feather. Liudmyla Mekh″ ( uk, ″Золоте перо. Людмила Мех″), 2012. *, 2013. The author of this book has been nominated for the

Shevchenko National Prize Shevchenko National Prize ( uk, Націона́льна пре́мія Украї́ни і́мені Тараса́ Шевче́нка; also ''Shevchenko Award'') is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since ...

. *Empire of Terror ( uk, Імперія терору), 2021. Books written by Serhii Shevchenko and historian Dmytro Viedienieiev: *″Ukrainian Solovki″ (″Ukrains'ki Solovky″, uk, Українські Соловки, 2001). *″Dispelled myths. Historical essays and articles″ ( uk, Розвіяні міфи. Історичні нариси і статті, 2010).

Articles

The Moloch of the Solovky terror
2008.
The secrets of Mt. Sekirnaia
2007.
Shot at Sandarmokh. * [https://gazeta.dt.ua/HISTORY/rik-zhertv-velikogo-teroru-vshanuymo-pam-yat-represovanih-243654_
″ (2007), the state award. * Award Ivan Franko in information activities (2007, 2018), the award of the State Committee in Television and Radio-broadcasting (Ukraine)">State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine and the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. * International Award Volodymyr Vynnychenko (2011), the award of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. * Art Аward ″Kyiv″ (2014), the award of the Kiev City State Administration. * Viacheslav Chornovil Prize for the best nonfiction in journalism (2014), the award of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine and the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.[http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=247656068&cat_id=244277212 Урядовий портал. Визначено лауреата премії імені В'ячеслава Чорновола за кращу публіцистичну роботу в галузі журналістики в 2014 році] * Gold Medal of Ukrainian Journalism (2009), the award of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.

References

External links

*[http://www.koonspu.org/index.php/biblio/124-serhiy-shevchenko Сайт ″Літературна Київщина″ Київської обласної організації НСПУ. Сергій Шевченко] * ttp://www.solovki.ca/writers_023/shevchenkoSerge_ua.php Автор книг о Соловках — лауреат премий Украины
Serhii ShevchenkoПрезентація книги Сергія Шевченка ″Соловецький реквієм″

Книговидавничий проект "Толока Шевченків"

″Соловецький реквієм″ — на здобуття Шевченківської премії!

Василь Овсієнко. Голос українських Соловків // Україна молода (№ 157, 23.10.2014)

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