On June 28, in Lviv, at the 86th year of his life, Igor Kalinets died-a Ukrainian poet, a long-term political prisoner of Soviet camps, one of the symbols of the sixties of resistance movement. The death of the writer was reported by his daughter Dzvinka Kalinets-Mamchur. She also announced that farewell ceremonies would take place in Lviv.
According to her, June 30 at 19:00 - Parastas in the Archikafedral Cathedral of St. Yura. July 1 at 12:00 in the same cathedral will be served a funeral. At 13:30, a citywide farewell ceremony will be held near the town hall, and at 14:00 - a memorial vessel and burial on the field of honor No. 67 of the Lychakovsky cemetery. The family asks not to bring flowers and wreaths, but instead transfer funds to support the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces through the Lviv Knight Foundation - this would be the will of Igor Kalinets himself, who until the last days lived by war, supported the army and dreamed of waiting for victory.
Igor Kalinets was born on July 9, 1939 in the city of Khodorov in Lvivshchina. At 17, he moved to Lviv to study and stayed in the city for life. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Lviv University, worked in the regional archive, where, as he himself recalled, he had the opportunity to plunge deeper into the Ukrainian past - the very one that the Soviet government tried to erase.
His first poetic book saw the light in 1965. It was then that the trial of Vyacheslav Chernivk was held in Lviv-Igor Kalinets with his wife Irina Stasiv-Kalinets were witnesses. The refusal to testify against the defendants made them " Subsequently, the KGB describes the Kalinz as a nationalist and dangerous, because he not only wrote poetry, but stubbornly avoided references to Lenin, party or Soviet reality.
In 1972, the Soviet government sentenced the Kalin to six years in prison and three years of exile - for " In Perm camps, he was next to Ivan Svetlichny, Vasily Stus, Stepan Sapelak. And in the village of Undino-Poselia, in Transbaikalia, he was serving a link with his wife Irina. Their letters in Lviv were carefully censored, there were almost no dates, and life in the taiga was difficult. But even in those conditions, Kalinets did not refuse the beliefs and did not repent, despite the authorities constant attempts to force him to publicly condemn Ukrainian emigration and samizdat.
He was released in 1981, and was rehabilitated only in 1990. After returning to Lviv, Kalvin did not write poetry for adults anymore - instead he worked in the Lviv Scientific Library named after Stefanik, published children's books, popularized Ukrainian art and conducted cultural work, which at that time was still semi -underground. Together with his wife, he organized evenings in the memory of writers, such as Bogdan-Igor Antonich and Vasily Barvinsky, collected archives, edited magazines.
The poet left behind 17 poetic collections, in particular " He is the winner of the Vasily Stus Prize, the Metropolitan Award Andrei Sheptitsky. In 2016, Kalinets abandoned the Order of Yaroslav the Wise IV degree - as a protest against what he called "
A special place in the life of a Kalin was occupied by my wife Irina. They were united by spiritual proximity and joint struggle. Together they withstood the years of isolation, arrests, links.
In an interview for Tatyana Teren’s book “Recvіizi”, Igor Kalinets recalled: “We had six years of conclusion of a strict regime and three years of exile, but it was not at the same time - Irina was arrested six months earlier, so for us it was actually seven years old - without communication and dates. My mother and daughter came to me, they arrived for a second time, because they did not give us a date in the camp. The only thing the authorities made humane is the link together. Irina arrived earlier, prepared the soil - housing, work - and I already arrived for ready "
Kalinets remained true to the national idea since childhood. He recalled how little he saw the body of the killed rebels on the streets of his native Khodorov, which the NKVD put up for public condemnation. His father was hiding with the UPA warriors, and at home the boy was told that Lenin was an enemy. Since childhood, he grew up on an environment where "
Despite all the attempts of the system to break it, Kalinets never changed his position. He was not accepted into the Union of Writers of the USSR, he did not have an official platform, but became one of the main characters of the Ukrainian Samizdat. His poems were published in Munich, Brussels, New York, translated into foreign languages.
Igor Kalinets - Honorary Doctor of the Lviv National University named after Ivan Franco, laureate of numerous Ukrainian and international awards. In 2019, by his 80th anniversary, the mayor of Lviv, Andrei Sadovy, presented him with an honorary award "