Background
GONCHAR, Oles' Aleksandr Terentyevich was born in 1918 in Sukha, nr. Poltava, Ukraine.
GONCHAR, Oles' Aleksandr Terentyevich was born in 1918 in Sukha, nr. Poltava, Ukraine.
Dnepropetrovsk University 1946.
Writer and official; served in Soviet Army 1941-1945. Graduated Dnepropetrovsk University 1946. Deputy to USSR Supreme Soviet since 1970.
Academician, Ukrainian Academy, of Sciences 1978. Deputy since 1989.
Of Kharkov District Komsomol newspaper 1937-1941. Of CPSU since 1946; of USSR Writers’ Union 1947. Ideological Commission C.P.S.U. Central Committee since 1988.