1. Oleksandr "Oles" Terentiiovych Honchar was a Soviet and Ukrainian writer and public figure.
16 Facts About Oles Honchar
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Oles Honchar was a veteran of World War II and member of the Ukrainian parliament.
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Oles Honchar's mother died when he was three, and his father perished on a job site later in 1941.
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Since 1925, Honchar studied first in his village, later in the village of Khorishky.
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Oles Honchar then found a job with the local newspaper "Expanded front".
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In 1938, Oles Honchar enrolled into the Department of Philology of Kharkiv University.
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Oles Honchar soon invited Honchar to Kyiv, where Oles entered an aspirantura at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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In Kyiv Oles Honchar received an apartment in the specially designed Rolit building.
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In 1975 Oles Honchar wrote a novel dedicating to him: Blue Towers of Yanovsky.
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In 1947 Oles Honchar published Earth is Rumbling about the underground movement of the Poltava Region, as well as the second book of his The Flag-Bearers trilogy, Blue Danube.
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Around that time Oles Honchar was starting public and journalistic activities.
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Oles Honchar travelled abroad, which resulted in the short story collections Meeting with Friends and China Up-Close.
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The collection of short stories Tronka was the first major work of Oles Honchar commemorating a contemporary peaceful life.
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From 1962 to 1990 Oles Honchar was a People's Deputy in the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union.
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In 1991, Oles Honchar released a new book: By That We Live.
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Oles Honchar is known for urging the president of Ukraine to rebuild the St Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv, which was destroyed by the Soviet authorities.