Background
Chornovil, Viacheslav was born in 1938 in Erki, Cherkassy Oblast’.
Chornovil, Viacheslav was born in 1938 in Erki, Cherkassy Oblast’.
Graduated from Kiev University.
Worked as a journalist and editor. Involved in Ukrainian nationalist activity. Arrested 1967, and sentenced to 3 years in the camps.
Released in 1969. Became widely known through his samizdat articles. Rearrested, 1972. One of the best known Ukrainian nationalist voices in the Soviet Union in recent years.