Mykhailo Ivasyuk: Farewell to the writer

Chernivtsi, 1995. The funeral of Ukrainian writer and father of Volodymyr Ivasyuk, Mykhailo Ivasyuk.

On the video: Chernivtsi National University named after O. Kobylianska, farewell in the Church of the Three Saints, burial at the Russian Cemetery.

Speeches: Borys Bonchuk, Dean of the Faculty of Philology at the Chernivtsi National University; Bohdan Melnychuk, Professor of the Department of Ukrainian Literature; Vasyl Folvarochnyi, poet; Mykhailo Sverdan, Vice-Rector of the Chernivtsi National University; Viktor Kosyachenko, writer; Tadei Sulyatytskyi, theater and public and cultural figure; Heorhiy Filipchuk, Head of the Chernivtsi Regional State Administration.

Reference: Mykhailo Ivasyuk was a Ukrainian writer, literary critic, teacher, public and cultural figure, and the father of Volodymyr Ivasyuk. He was born on November 25, 1917, in the town of Kitsman. In 1964, he began teaching at Chernivtsi University at the Department of Ukrainian Literature. For his writing, he was awarded the Dmytro Zahul Literary Prize (1992) and the Sydor Vorobkevych Literary and Art Prize (1993).

Mykhailo Ivasyuk died on February 5, 1995 in Chernivtsi. He was buried at the Ruske Cemetery.

In 1998, the Chernivtsi Regional Scientific Library was named after Mykhailo Ivasyuk.