Vasyl Chervoniy

Vasyl Mykhailovych Chervoniy (Ukrainian: Василь Михайлович Червоній; 24 August 1958 – 4 July 2009) was a Ukrainian chemical engineer, activist, and politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1990 to 2006, first from various constituencies in Rivne Oblast and then as from proportional party lists.

[1] Vasyl Chervoniy was born on 24 August 1958 in the village of Pohorilivka, Rivne Oblast.

In 1988, Chervoniy was the first to creat the Shevchenko Society of Ukrainian Language and, in 1989, the first branch of the People's Movement of Ukraine.

During the Ukraine without Kuchma protests, he was a member of the National Salvation Committee.

Chervoniy was taken to the Central Hospital of Rivne Raion in Klevan, where he died.