Hrebeniuk, Hryhoriy Stepanovych

HREBENIUK, HRYHORIY STEPANOVYCH (born October 6, 1925, in the village of Tymoshivka, Kamianka raion, Cherkasy oblast—died May 7, 2013, in Lviv).
A metallurgical engineer. He read and disseminated samvydav.
His father, Stepan Prokopovych (1897–1967), was an agricultural worker; his mother, Khrystyna Andronivna (1897–1979), was a collective farm worker.
In 1955, Hrebeniuk graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute; in 1965, he defended his dissertation in metallurgy, “A Study of the Billeting of Ingots in the Forging of Large Forgings” (1965).
He worked in the Urals. From 1955 to 1961, he was a foreman, senior foreman, and deputy head of the forge-and-press shop at the South Ural Machine-Building Plant in Orsk, Orenburg oblast. From 1961 to 1989, he was a senior researcher and head of a laboratory at the Research, Design, and Technological Institute of Machine Building in Kramatorsk.
He read and distributed samvydav literature. He communicated with O. TYKHY and read his articles, for which he was interrogated during the investigation and at the trial in July 1977. He is the author of a memoir about O. TYKHY.
He was a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group (UHG) from April 1988 and the head of its Donetsk oblast organization. From April 1990 to May 1991, he was the deputy head of the Ukrainian Republican Party (URP). He was a publicist.
He edited the newspaper “Neskorena natsiia” (“The Unconquered Nation”) (later “Nezboryma natsiia” [“The Indomitable Nation”]). He was a member of the Board of the All-Ukrainian Political Association “State Independence of Ukraine.” He authored (or co-authored) over 100 published works in the field of metallurgy and 12 inventions.
His daughter, Oksana (b. 1957), is a teacher in Kramatorsk; his daughter, Olesya (b. 1962), is a lecturer at the Sevastopol Naval Institute; his son, Taras (b. 1967), is a radio engineer in Lviv.
Bibliography:
I.
Hrebeniuk, Hryhoriy. Memoirs of a Ukrainian [Text]: From the Life and Events in Ukraine and Beyond, Through the Eyes of an Eyewitness and Participant from the Year 1925. – Lviv: Kameniar, 2009. – 421 pp.; 12 sheets of illustrations.
II.
Oleksa Tykhy: Thoughts on the Native Donetsk Region (Volume 1). / Compiled by V. V. Ovsiienko, M. I. Oliynyk, V. F. Piven, Ye. B. Fialko. – Donetsk: “Polihrafichnyi budynok ‘Donechchyna’” LLC, 2012. – pp. 202, 269, 271-273; Oleksa Tykhy: in Memoirs, Reflections, and Literature (Volume II). – pp. 5, 8, 50, 98-107, 113, 114, 141, 351, 356.
Vasyl Novorynsky. Hryhoriy Stepanovych Hrebeniuk Has Passed into Eternity. May 27, 2013 http://mnk.org.ua/ostanni-novini/novina/article/vidiishov-u-vichnist-grigorii-stepanovich-grebenjuk/
Vasyl Ovsiienko