“The immortal word": Yevhen Pluzhnyk

Ukrainian Radio Lviv, 1980s. The program “The Immortal Word” dedicated to the life and work of the Ukrainian writer Yevhen Pluzhnyk.

Background: Yevhen Pluzhnyk was a Ukrainian poet, playwright, and translator. One of the representatives of the executed revival, a victim of Stalin's terror. The NKVD arrested him on December 4, 1934. He was accused of belonging to the so-called “nationalist terrorist organization”. In March 1935, he was sentenced to death by firing squad. Later, the sentence was changed to long-term camp imprisonment on Solovki. There the writer died of tuberculosis. He was buried in the camp cemetery. The grave has not been preserved. He was rehabilitated in August 1956. The conditional grave is at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv, plot 9.

The material was digitized by the team of the “House of Sound” department of Lviv Radio with the assistance of the Department of Composition and the Problematic Research Laboratory of Musical Ethnology of the Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy.