Sumy "sixties": Yuriy Tsaryk

Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program "The Path over the Abyss" for February 2, 2008, dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the sixties writer, writer and famous Sumy journalist Yuriy Tsaryk.

On the video: various editions of Yuriy Tsaryk’s prose; an interview, Yuriy Tsaryk about his work, about the publication of his first collection; photos from the personal archive of the hero of the program; landscapes of the city of Sumy.

Comments: writer Yuriy Tsaryk; poet Vasyl Budyansky; head of the Sumy Regional Writers’ Union Oleksandr Vertil.

The program was created by: Viktoriya Krasnoplakhta, Serhiy Surkov, Olena Borysenko, Serhiy Konoz.

Reference: Yuriy Tsaryk is a Ukrainian writer, journalist, member of the National Union of Ukrainian Writers, laureate of the Mykola Khvylovy Prize, participant in the protest movement of the sixties in Sumy and a political prisoner of the Soviet regime. The author of deep psychological prose and ironic satire, he left behind eight books in his creative output, in which he combined the honesty of his worldview and a subtle sense of life.