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Foundation for Development of Crimea Starts Preparing Book of Recollections About General Petro Grigorenko
16 June 2013
In the framework of the project “Crimean Heritage” the charitable organization “Foundation for Development of Crimea” implements the educational, informative and enlightening programs to promote the heritage of the humanists of the 19–20th centuries Ismail Gasprinsky, Petro Grigorenko and Andrei Sakharov – the figures that made an inestimable contribution to the development of the civil society, national cultures and political systems.
According to the Press service of the Foundation, in late May 2013 in the framework of the project “Crimean Heritage” the charitable organization “Foundation for Development of Crimea” started preparing the book of recollections about the outstanding Ukrainian public figure, human rights activist, dissident, General Petro Grigorenko.
The initiative to publish the book in Ukraine came from the son of General Petro Grigorenko, Head of “General Petro Grigorenko Foundation” (New-York, www.grigorenko.org), and contribution of “Kharkov Human Rights Group” (Kharkov, www.khpg.org).
The participants of the project plan to publish the book in Russian this autumn and in Ukrainian in 2014
The book will be also published in Russia.
Note: Petro Grigorenko was born in Borisovka village, Zaporozhe. He graduated from Kharkov Technological Institute, Academy of General Headquarters. He fought in the Red Army in 1939-1945. Since 1945 he taught at Military Academy named after Frunze (Moscow). In 1961 he criticized Stalinism and Khruschev’s policy. In 1964 he was deprived of his rank, medals and pension. In 1964-1965 and 1969-1971 he underwent a compulsory psychiatric care. He was arrested and had no work. In 1976 he became the founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group. He became the center figure of the dissidence in the Soviet Union. In 1977 he was allowed to leave abroad to have a surgery. Then he was deprived of his citizenship and banned from returning to the USSR. He died on February 21, 1987 and was buried in the Ukrainian cemetery in South Bound Brook near New York.
