Rostyslav Dotsenko

In April 1956, its members (A. Sukhodolskyi, R. Dotsenko, J. Mazur, D. Pysarev, D. Slobodyan, V. Cherepanov, A. Stasishkis, A. Myroshnichenko, A. Ahbalov and others) were arrested and trialled in September of the same year.

Rostyslav Dotsenko refers to those times as "From Mordovian cannabis, unexpectedly I entered the Sixtiers and politics in the Soviet Union in the second half of 1950) where gladly acquainted with Ivan Svitlychny Dziuba, Lina Kostenko, Alla Horska and many, many others outstanding personalities of those revival years."

Then he made more than 30 translations from English, French, Polish, particularly the works of Oscar Wilde, James Fenimore Cooper, William Faulkner, Charles Dickens, Margaret Mitchell, J. Luckyj, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift and some others.

In the early 1970s, the "Dnipro" publishing house gathered a group of writers led by Ivan Dziuba, who worked with Mykola Lukash and Hryhoriy Kochur – recent prisoners of the Soviet concentration camps.

Dotsenko is the author of the book "On Lightning's edges" about poet, human rights activist and his personal friend Yuriy Lytvyn.