Abbreviated:
CHERNIANSKA-NABOKA, INNA BORYSIVNA (b. June 9, 1954, in Kyiv).
Doctor, journalist, prisoner of conscience, participant in the 1980s resistance movement. Co-founder of the Kyiv Democratic Club (1980), the Ukrainian Culturological Club (1987), member of the UHG (from September 1988).
In 1976, she graduated from the Faculty of Biology at Kyiv State University named after T. Shevchenko and worked as a research fellow at the Research Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
In 1980, together with S. NABOKA, L. LOKHVYTSKA, and L. MILYAVSKY, she was a founder of the Kyiv Democratic Club—an illegal opposition organization of a national-democratic orientation, where political and literary discussions, religious and philosophical seminars were held, and anti-Soviet literature and samizdat were disseminated and discussed. In July 1980, they drafted a text calling for a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics due to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Later, they created a “Manifesto,” which proclaimed the political views of the KDC founders, and other documents that were incriminated as anti-Soviet after their arrest. In January 1981, together with L. LOKHVYTSKA, she produced leaflets in support of Ukrainian political prisoners with the following text: “Compatriot! On January 12, the world community observes the Day of the Ukrainian Political Prisoner. Let us raise our voices in defense of those who suffer for the freedom and independence of our homeland!” On January 11, 1981, while distributing these leaflets with L. LOKHVYTSKA, S. NABOKA, L. MILYAVSKY, and N. Parkhomenko, she was arrested. On June 29, 1981, Cherniavska-Naboka was sentenced by the Kyiv City Court to 3 years of imprisonment in a general-regime correctional labor colony under Article 187-I of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR, “Dissemination of deliberately false information defaming the Soviet state and social system.” She served her sentence in correctional labor colonies in Odesa and Dniprodzerzhynsk.
After serving her sentence, she was persecuted by the KGB: denied work in her profession, subjected to surveillance and searches. In 1987, together with her associates, she became a co-founder and active participant in the first independent legal public association in modern Ukraine, the “Ukrainian Culturological Club.” She took part in the first unauthorized demonstration in Ukraine (on the second anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster), and in many unauthorized rallies, demonstrations, and other actions of the national-democratic forces. In 1989, together with her husband Serhiy NABOKA, Cherniavska-Naboka worked on the first issues of the first legal uncensored opposition newspaper, “Holos Vidrodzhennia” (Voice of Rebirth), the newspaper of the UHG. She participated in the work of the independent press centers “Vybory-94” (Elections-94) and “Horiacha Liniia” (Hotline).
Since 2003, Cherniavska-Naboka has been a freelance journalist for Radio Liberty and is published in periodicals, including the journal “Suchasnist.” In her primary profession, she currently works as a doctor in a medical laboratory.
Bibliography:
I.
Cherniavska, I. [Response to the article “Teatr tinei” (Theater of Shadows)] // Ukrainsky Visnyk. Issue 9-10. October-November 1987. Kyiv-Lviv. Reprint by the Foreign Representation of the UHG – pp. 208-209.
Cherniavska, I. Vilni liudy u nevilnii kraini [Free People in an Unfree Country] / Ukrainskyi best. Knyzhka roku’2001.– Kyiv, 2002. – p. 126.
Cherniavska, I. Leonid Pliushch “U karnavali istorii. Svidchennia” [Leonid Pliushch “At the Carnival of History. Testimony”] / Dukh i litera, 2003. – No. 11-12. – p. 456.
Cherniavska-Naboka, Inna. Khto stoiav za lashtunkamy Ukrainskoho kulturolohichnoho klubu [Who Stood Behind the Scenes of the Ukrainian Culturological Club] / Suchasnist, 2007. – No. 8. – p. 73.
Cherniavska-Naboka, Inna. UHS. 20 rokiv potomu [UHG. 20 Years Later] // Suchasnist, 2008. – No. 7. – pp. 45–50.
II.
Herald of Repression in Ukraine. Foreign Representation of the UHG. Ed.-comp. Nadiya Svitlychna. New York. 1981, issues 5, 7, 8, 9; 1984: 1–20.
U Kyievi zasudyly L. Lokhvytsku, L. Miliavskoho, S. Naboku y I. Cherniavsku za rozpovsiudzhennia letiuchok [L. Lokhvytska, L. Milyavsky, S. Naboka, and I. Cherniavska sentenced in Kyiv for distributing leaflets] // Smoloskyp. – 1982. – No. 3. – pp. 1–4.
Four Kyiv Activists Sentenced for Leaflets // Smoloskyp. – 1982. – No. 3. – pp. 1, 10.
Naboka, S. Ukrainskyi kulturolohichnyi klub – Kyiv, 1987 [Ukrainian Culturological Club – Kyiv, 1987] // Ukrainskyi almanakh. 1997. – Warsaw: Association of Ukrainians in Poland, 1997. – pp. 154–156.
Rusnachenko, A. Natsionalno-vyzvolnyi rukh v Ukraini [National Liberation Movement in Ukraine]. – Kyiv: Vydavnytstvo im. O.Telihy. – 1998. – p. 217.
Zakharov, Borys. Narys istorii dysydentskoho rukhu v Ukraini (1956-1987) [An Outline of the History of the Dissident Movement in Ukraine (1956-1987)]. Kharkiv, 2003. – p. 128.
Serhiy Naboka. “Ya ‘po zhyzni’ zhurnalist, redaktor i vydavets…” [“In life, I’m a journalist, editor, and publisher…”] The last interview with Vakhtang Kipiani, November 21, 2002 // Ukrainska Pravda, January 21, 2003. http://www.pravda.com.ua/cgi-bin/print.cgi
Kyivska vesna [Kyiv Spring] / Comp. and ed. O. Shevchenko. – Kyiv: Vydavnytstvo imeni Oleny Telihy, 2005. –– pp. 11, 13, 63-66, 69, 122-129, 143, 146, 264, 293, 318, 326, 369, 503.
Marusenko, I. Ukrainskyi kulturolohichnyi klub yak visnyk peremin [The Ukrainian Culturological Club as a Harbinger of Change] // Dzerkalo tyzhnia, No. 27 (606), 2006. – July 15–21.
Zakharov, Ye. Zhaha svobody [The Thirst for Freedom] // Dzerkalo tyzhnia, No. 1 (630). – 2007. – January 13–19.
Serhiy Hrabovskyi. Vony pryishly, shchob zvilnyty nas: do dvadtsiatyrichchia UKK [They Came to Free Us: On the Twentieth Anniversary of the UCC]. August 7, 2007, http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/articles/2007/08/7/4422278/
Naboka, Serhiy. Uvaha № 0 [Attention No. 0]. A collection of poems. 1982–1988. Compilation: I. Cherniavska-Naboka. – Kyiv: Knyzhnyk-Review, 2003. – 170 p., ill.
Obertas, O. Den ukrainskoho politv’iaznia [Day of the Ukrainian Political Prisoner] // Smoloskyp Ukrainy, No. 1 (138). – 2007. – January.
International Biographical Dictionary of Dissidents in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Vol. 1. Ukraine. Part 1. – Kharkiv: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group; “Prava liudyny.” – 2006. – pp. 1–516; Part 2. – pp. 517–1020; Part 3. – 2011. – pp. 1021-1380; Cherniavska-Naboka: pp. 1355-1357: https://museum.khpg.org/1292498855.
Rukh oporu v Ukraini: 1960 – 1990. Entsyklopedychnyi dovidnyk [Resistance Movement in Ukraine: 1960 – 1990. An Encyclopedic Guide] / Foreword by Osyp Zinkevych, Oles Obertas. – Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2010. – pp. 704-705; 2nd ed.– 2012. – pp. 792-793.
This profile was compiled by I. Cherniavska-Naboka in October 2010. Bibliography supplemented on December 16, 2010, by V. Ovsiienko (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group). Last read May 16, 2016. Cherniavska Characters 5,341.
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