Mykhaylo Osadchy

Mykhaylo Osadchy (Ukrainian: Осадчий Михайло Григорович; March 22, 1936, in Kurmany, Nedryhailiv Raion, Sumy Oblast, UkSSR – July 5, 1994, in Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian journalist, poet, writer, and dissident.

Mykhaylo Osadchy graduated from Lviv University in 1958.

He was arrested in 1965, spent 8 months waiting for a court decision and was finally sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1966.

Osadchy's first book of poetry, 'The Moonlit Field' (Ukrainian: Місячне поле), was published in 1965 before his arrest.

The third one, 'The Scythian Altar' (Ukrainian: Скифський вівтар), was published in 1990.