Serhii Shevchenko Explained

Serhii Shevchenko
Ukrainian: Сергій Шевченко
Birth Name:Serhii Volodymyrovych Shevchenko
Ukrainian: Сергій Володимирович Шевченко
Birth Date:August 4, 1960
Birth Place:Kramatorsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation:Journalist, writer
Nationality:Ukrainian
Citizenship:Ukraine
Education:Journalist
Alma Mater:Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1982)
Genre:Article, essay
Subject:documentaries
Movement:historical research
Notableworks:Solovki requiem Ukrainian: Соловецький реквієм (2013)
Awards:Merited Journalist of Ukraine (2007)
Award Ivan Franko in information activities (2007, 2018)
International Award Volodymyr Vynnychenko (2011)
Art Аward Kyiv (2014)
Viacheslav Chornovil Prize for the best nonfiction in journalism (2014)
Gold Medal of Ukrainian Journalism (2009)
The First Prize of the Literary and Scientific Competition of the Ukrainian Free University Foundation (NY, USA) (2023)

Serhii Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Володимирович Шевченко; born August 4, 1960, in Kramatorsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (modern-day Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine)) is a Ukrainian writer, journalist and editor.[1] Merited Journalist of Ukraine.[2]

Biography

Shevchenko was born in the town of Kramatorsk, in Ukraine (at that time – the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union). After finishing secondary school in 1977, he enrolled into the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. In 1982, Shevchenko graduated from the Journalism faculty of University as a journalist. From 1982 to 1985, he worked at the Bila Tserkva newspaper as a correspondent. Then he made a career in the Security Service of Ukraine (press-officer, editor, executive editor, head of research unit of the Institute of State Security Problems). Colonel, a veteran of military service.[3] [4] [5]

2010–2012 – head of Department of the State Service of Ukraine on Drugs Control (activities – international relations, public consultation, interaction with the media). After 2012 creative and social activities, Kyiv.

Shevchenko works in the field of literature since the 2000s. He is the author of a number of books about the tragedy Solovki, Sandarmokh, and also numerous articles in the periodical press. August 2, 2012, he has been stopped from taking part in the Days of Remembrance for the Victims of the Terror in the Sandarmokh Clearing in Karelia. He was one of a delegation from Ukraine travelling to Sandarmokh for annually held memorial events which mark the anniversary of the unleashing of what is known as the Great Terror (1937—1938). It is not clear what the grounds are for refusing Serhiy Shevchenko entry to Russia.[6]

From October 2017 to June 2019, he worked as an assistant to the president of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU).

From May 2022, on the recommendation of the NUJU, he was a participant in the international program of professional protection of journalists "Journalists-in-Residence Kosovo" and lived in Pristina, Kosovo.[7]

Shevchenko is a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (1994), the National Writer's Union of Ukraine (2011), the National Union of Ukrainian ethnographers (2015).

Books

Books written by Serhii Shevchenko and historian Dmytro Viedienieiev:

Articles

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://photo.ukrinform.ua/ukr/current/photo.php?id=494028 Редактор роману-трилогії "Вершина" Сергій Шевченко на прес-конференції, Київ, 9 жовтня 2012 року
  2. http://www.koonspu.org/index.php/biblio/124-serhiy-shevchenko Website of Kyiv Regional Organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine
  3. http://www.solovki.ca/writers_023/shevchenkoSerge_ua.php Solovki Encyclopaedia. Автор книг о Соловках — лауреат премий Украины
  4. http://www.koonspu.org/index.php/biblio/124-serhiy-shevchenko Website of Kyiv Regional Organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine
  5. http://www.day.kiev.ua/en/article/day-after-day/finding-out-fate-ukraines-best FINDING OUT THE FATE OF UKRAINE’S BEST
  6. http://www.khpg.org/pda/index.php?do=print&id=1344024116 Ukrainian historian refused entry into Russia
  7. Web site: 2022-05-22 . Two Ukrainian journalists arrive in Kosovo, will practice their profession remotely . 2024-03-24 . IMK - InfoMedia Kosova . sq.
  8. [:uk:Мех Людмила Григорівна|Liudmyla Mekh]
  9. http://mediafond.com.ua/show/none/603 В Інституті журналістики презентовано книжку ″Золоте перо″
  10. http://comin.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=89118&cat_id=89082 Літературно-художнє видання ″Соловецький реквієм″
  11. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304140820/http://knpu.gov.ua/content/%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D1%85%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%BD%D1%94-%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F-%C2%AB%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%86%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%94%D0%BC%C2%BB Website of Committee for Shevchenko National Prize
  12. https://www.vectornews.net/exclusive/188193-pamyat-narodu-v-knizhc-mperya-teroru.html Пам'ять народу в книжці «Імперія терору»
  13. http://www.szru.gov.ua/index_en/index.html%3Fp=1224.html A Bloody Turning Point
  14. http://comin.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=89118&cat_id=89082 Лауреати премії імені Івана Франка у галузі інформаційної діяльності
  15. https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-culture/2510377-premia-franka-nazvala-peremozciv-v-informacijnij-sferi.html Премія Франка: названі переможці в інформаційній сфері
  16. http://mediafond.com.ua/show/none/1103 Лауреати Мистецької премії «Київ» 2014 року
  17. http://www.kmu.gov.ua/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=247656068&cat_id=244277212 Урядовий портал. Визначено лауреата премії імені В'ячеслава Чорновола за кращу публіцистичну роботу в галузі журналістики в 2014 році
  18. http://www.golos.com.ua/article/374713 Виховання національної пам’яті — наш головний самозахист