Yaroslav Pavulyak

In 1969, he built a statue of Taras Shevchenko in Nastasiv which led to a severe prosecution of his family by KGB.

He restarted his studies in 1972 at the Department of Teaching at the University of Kamianets-Podilskyi, where he was again forced to leave for the same reason as he left Tchernivtsy.

[citation needed] In 1973 he was accepted to the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow.

After graduating and marrying a Czechoslovakian citizen, he relocated to the former Czechoslovakia where he worked at a literary agency, LITA.

He worked as a director of a Museum of Political Prisoners and Victims of Communist Regime in Ternopil.