Ivan Bahryany: 100th anniversary of his birth

October 2, 2006, the city of Okhtyrka, Sumy region.

A plot for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous Ukrainian writer Ivan Bahryany.

On the video: Okhtyrka, various landscapes; Ivan Bahryany's House-Museum, various plans; fellow countrymen and relatives of Bahryany talk about the creator, various plans for the museum.

Comments: Chairman of the Okhtyrka City Veterans Council Volodymyr Trotsenko; husband of Ivan Bahryany's niece Mykola Progonov; historians Oleksandr Galkin and Vadym Skurativskyi; researcher at the Okhtyrka Historical and Local History Museum Lyudmila Mishchenko.

Reference: Ivan Bahryany is a Ukrainian writer, publicist and political figure, one of the most powerful voices of emigration literature. Author of the novels "Tiger Hunters" and "The Garden of Gethsemane", in which he truthfully depicted the experience of Soviet repressions and camps even before Solzhenitsyn. After the war, he became a co-founder of the Ukrainian Revolutionary Democratic Party, edited the newspaper "Ukrainian News" and headed the Ukrainian National Council in exile. His work is a combination of sharp political criticism, humanism and faith in the power of the Ukrainian spirit.