Background
He was born in the village of Nastasiv in Ternopil, western Ukraine.
He was born in the village of Nastasiv in Ternopil, western Ukraine.
He attended art school in Lviv, focusing on ceramics. He graduated in 1967.
And began working at different galleries and craftwork sites while also doing various restoration work. In 1969, he built a statue of Taras Shevchenko in Nastasiv which led to a severe prosecution of his family by Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security). He was threatened and put under house arrest for two months. Later, he attended the University of Chernivtsy.
In December 1971 he was fired because he was again promoting Ukrainian language and culture.
He restarted his studies in 1972 at the Department of Teaching at the University of Kamianets-Podilskyi, where he was again forced to leave for the same reason as he left Tchernivtsy. In 1973 he was accepted to the Gorki Institute of Literature in Moscow.
Later he returned to the Ukraine. He worked as a director of a Museum of Political Prisoners and Victims of Communist Regime in Ternopil.
He died at his home in Ternopil, aged 62.
He was a member of The National Writers" Union of Ukraine and the Society of Ukrainian Writers in Slovakia (Spolok ukrajinských spisovateľov na Slovensku).