Vasyl Symonenko

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Andriiovych and the family name is Symonenko.

Vasyl Symonenko
Василь Симоненко
Symonenko on a 2015 Ukrainian stamp
Born	(1935-01-08)8 January 1935 Biivtsi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Poltava Oblast, Ukraine)
Died	13 December 1963(1963-12-13) (aged 28) Cherkasy, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Citizenship	Soviet Union
Education	Kyiv University (1957)
Occupations	Poet public activist
Writing career
Notable awards	Shevchenko National Prize
Movement	Sixtiers
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Vasyl Andriiovych Symonenko (Ukrainian: Василь Андрійович Симоненко; 8 January 1935 – 13 December 1963) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, and activist of the dissident movement. He is considered one of the most important figures in Ukrainian literature of the early 1960s. In the opinion of the Museum of the Dissident Movement in Kyiv, the works and early death of Vasyl Symonenko had an enormous impact on the rise of the national democratic movement in Ukraine.