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Volodymyr Svidzinsky

Died in 1941

Volodymyr Svidzinsky was born on 8 October 1885 in Maianiv, in Podolia, into a large family. He left the seminary of Kamianets-Podilsky without finishing it, attended the courses of the Kyiv Commercial Institute as an auditor, then ran the archives of a monuments protection committee in Kamianets. Settled in Kharkiv in 1925, he was editor of the journal Tchervonyi chliakh and of a military newspaper, and his family broke up there. Arrested on 27 September 1941, he was shut in with other detainees in a building that was set on fire on 18 October 1941.

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