Myroslav Marynovych
Ukrainian dissident
Myroslav Frankovych Marynovych (Ukrainian: Миросла́в Фра́нкович Марино́вич; born 4 January 1949) is a Ukrainian educator, human rights activist, and former Soviet dissident, and longtime vice-rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. The co-founder of Amnesty International Ukraine, Marynovych was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.
Early life
Marynovych was born on 4 January 1949, in the village of Komarovychi of Staryi Sambir Raion of Drohobych Oblast (now Lviv Oblast). His grandfather was a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and his family was very religious.
In Drohobych he attended high school, from which he graduated with a gold medal. Then he worked as an exempt secretary of Komsomol at a plant in Drohobych for a year.
In 1967, Myroslav Marynovych began studying at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute. At the institute, he spoke out against the Soviet government. As a result of this, his first meeting with the KGB took place in 1970.
Career
In 1972 he graduated from Lviv Polytechnic and worked as a translator for English at the Ivano-Frankivsk plant "Positron".
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