Mykola Rudenko — Founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2017.

The documentary film "Mykola Rudenko. The Formula of Life Found" from the series "Dissidents" is dedicated to the life path of dissident Mykola Rudenko and his struggle for an independent Ukraine.

In the video: Soviet black-and-white chronicle; Mykola Rudenko's wife talks about life in the Soviet Union, shows archival photos of the family; archival interviews with Mykola Rudenko; various editions of his works.

Comments: human rights activist, political prisoner from 1981 to 1987 Raisa Rudenko; Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, researcher of the Ukrainian liberation movement Vasyl Derevinsky; founder of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, human rights activist, political prisoner from 1977 to 1987 Mykola Rudenko; human rights activist, political prisoner 1980–1987, head of the Kyiv organization of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in 1988–1990 Oles Shevchenko.

Reference: Mykola Rudenko is a Ukrainian writer and philosopher, Hero of Ukraine, co-founder and first head of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, one of the leading figures of the human rights movement in the Ukrainian SSR. In 1977, he was sentenced to 7 years in camps and 5 years in exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda", his works were confiscated from libraries. Since 1987, he has been released and rehabilitated, and has worked in exile.