1. Yuriy Mykolayovych Shcherbak is a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, publicist, epidemiologist, politician, diplomat, environmental activist and political analyst.
12 Facts About Yuriy Shcherbak
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Yuriy Shcherbak was born in Kyiv in 1934, about the time when his father was arrested by NKVD.
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Yuriy Shcherbak returned to his native city in the beginning of March 1944.
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Yuriy Shcherbak took part in the fight against epidemics of cholera and other diseases in Ukraine and Uzbekistan, for which he was awarded the Order of Red Banner of Labour.
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Yuriy Shcherbak has been a Member of the Writer's Union of Ukraine since 1966, and a Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine since 1971.
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Yuriy Shcherbak has an excellent command of Polish, and translated Polish poetry and writers, often lecturing to students at Warsaw University.
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Yuriy Shcherbak is the author of the novel "The Barrier of Incompatibility" which concerns the moral problems of heart transplantation, the documentary novel "The Causes and Consequences" regarding the struggle against rabies, novels, digests of short stories, poems and plays, screenplays and a number of artistic, scientific and documentary movies.
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Yuriy Shcherbak was awarded the Y Yanovsky literary prize for a collection of short stories "The Bright Dances of the Past", and the O Dovzhenko state prize for the screenplay of the film "Public Attitudes".
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Never having been affiliated with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yuriy Shcherbak is one of the founders and Chairman of the Ukrainian Environmental Association "Green World", and the first leader of the Green Party of Ukraine.
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Yuriy Shcherbak is internationally recognized as one of Ukraine's foremost specialists on geo-political strategic issues, and is the author of numerous studies, articles and books on Chornobyl, ecology, public health, NATO and Ukraine's relations with Russia, the European Union and the United States.
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Yuriy Shcherbak was elected a member of the World Academy of Art and Science in 2013.
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Yuriy Shcherbak is married and has daughter and son, speaks Polish and English.