Background
Yaroslav Lesiv was born in the village of Luzhkiv, (Ukrainian Лужків), in the Dolyna Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast of Western Ukraine.
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Career
On March 29, 1965, his membership in this organization was discovered, and Lesiv was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He carried out a hunger strike. On October 3, 1977, Lesiv joined the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
Religious In 1988, Lesiv was ordained as a priest in the Ukrainian Catholic Rite.
In the night between October 9 and 10, 1991, Yaroslav Lesiv was killed in an automobile accident. He is buried in Bolekhiv, Ukraine.
Politics
In 1965, he joined the Ukrainian National Front, an underground organization working for Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union.
