Born October 30, 1947, in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
In 1965, he entered the Ryazan Radio Engineering Institute. He produced and distributed samvydav literature. On July 30, 1969, he was arrested and sentenced for Zionist activities to 7 years in a strict-regime camp. He served his sentence in Mordovia, Perm Oblast, and Vladimir Prison. From March to July 1976, he was in camp No. 36, where he memorized the poems of Ukrainian poet-political prisoners (S. KARAVANSKY, Z. KRASIVSKY, M. LUTSYK, M. MASIUTKO, V. MOROZ, M. OSADCHY, O. RIZNYKIV, Y. SVERSTIUK, I. SVITLYCHNY, I. SENYK, V. STUS, S. SHABATURA, O. Nevidomyi (Unknown)). Although upon Vudka’s release all his clothes were replaced and not a single item was returned, in 1978 the book “Poetry from Behind Barbed Wire” was published in Munich (without mentioning Vudka). That same year in London, Vudka published a memoir-essay, “Muscovy,” in which he sharply exposes the ideology and practice of Russian imperialism. He is the author of the philosophical essays “Ariadne’s Thread” and “The Hidden Light.” He lives in Samaria (Israel) and teaches Hebrew and the Bible in a school.
Literature:
I.
Yuriy A. Vudka. Muscovy (A Memoir-Essay). – London: Ukrainian Publishing Union, 1978. – 300 p.
Public Meeting with Ar'ye Vudka at the Teacher's House in Kyiv on February 16, 2003, https://museum.khpg.org/1264850085
II.
Poetry from Behind Barbed Wire. – Munich: Shliakh Peremohy, 1978. –183 p.
Olha Dmytrenko. Poetry from Behind Barbed Wire: A Path to the Free World. – Shliakh Peremohy, 2003, No. 9 (2547). – February 20.
International Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former USSR. Vol. 1. Ukraine. Part 1. – Kharkiv: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group; “Prava Lyudyny,” 2006. – pp. 117–118. https://museum.khpg.org/1121003954
The Resistance Movement in Ukraine: 1960–1990. An Encyclopedic Guide / Foreword by Osyp Zinkevych, Oles Obertas. – Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2010. – p. 126; 2nd ed.: 2012, – pp. 140–141.
Vasyl Ovsienko, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group. 2003. Last updated August 4, 2016.
