On October 8, 2021, the International Institute of Education, Culture and Diaspora Relations, Lviv Polytechnic National University, and the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations invite you to honour the memory of an outstanding personality Atena Pashko. She was a Ukrainian poetess, public activist, head of the Union of Ukrainian Women, and a wife of Viacheslav Chornovil.
At the meeting, dedicated to the 90th anniversary of her birth, in the restored Assembly Hall of the main building of Lviv Polytechnic, we will remember both famous and little-known pages of Atena Pashko’s biography, enjoy her exquisite poetry and try to outline her invaluable role in the formation of Ukrainian state.
The speeches will be also delivered by such honorary guests as: Iryna Volytska, daughter of Atena Pashko, and Zoriana Bilyk, Deputy Director of the Lviv Museum of the History of Religion. Myroslav Marynovych, Honorary President of the Ukrainian PEN, human rights activist, political prisoner, and Oksana Bryzgun-Sokolyk, President of the WFUWO (1992–2002), will join the conversation online.
Moderator: Iryna Kliuchkovska, Director of IECDR.
There are two formats of participation:
- offline, in the Assembly Hall of Lviv Polytechnic;
- online, using the Zoom service.
Participation in the event is free.
For details, please contact us at press@miok.lviv.ua and phone: (032) 258–01–51.
For reference
Atena-Sviatomyra Pashko was born on October 10, 1931 in the village Bystrytsia in the Drohobych region.
A graduate of the Lviv Forestry Institute.
In the mid-1960s, she defended repressed Ukrainian cultural activists, for which she was oppressed and banned.
After the restoration of Ukraine’s independence, in December 1991 she was elected chairman of the Union of Ukrainian Women.
After the tragic death of her husband Viacheslav Chornovil (1999), Atena Pashko continued to embody their political ideas.
Atena Pashko died in Kyiv on March 20, 2012. She was buried in Baikove Cemetery near the grave of Viacheslav Chornovil.