ANDROSIUK, PAVLO HRYHOROVYCH (born December 4, 1931, in the village of Raimisto, Rozhyshche raion, Volyn oblast—died May 23, 2016, in the village of Raimisto).
Political prisoner. He attempted to escape in order to create a combat unit and fight against the occupation of Ukraine.
He was born into a peasant family. He was conscripted for military service and served in Irkutsk, Russia. After demobilization, he remained in Irkutsk. He married. During those years, he met Ivan Kochubey, a native of Kuban (the hamlet of Briukhovetsky, Poltavska stanitsa), who had returned from prison and was building a railway in Mongolia. Dissatisfied with the living conditions of the working people, Androsiuk and Kochubey produced and distributed anti-communist leaflets in Irkutsk in 1958. They intended to create an underground organization. They needed funds for their activities and decided to carry out an expropriation. They broke into a store at night. They failed to capture the guard and had to flee. The guard pursued them, firing a shotgun. To stop the pursuit, Kochubey wounded the guard with a shot from a small-caliber rifle, and the pursuit ceased.
In early March 1959, Androsiuk and Kochubey were arrested and charged with conducting anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda and attempting to rob a store. They were each sentenced to 15 years in prison, with the first three years to be served under a prison regime.
After serving half of his prison sentence in Vladimir Prison, Androsiuk arrived in Mordovia in the autumn of 1960 at Camp No. 3 (Barashevo), which held about 400 prisoners under the article for “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.”
Androsiuk was closest friends with Serhiy BABYCH and Vasyl Makarenko (from Crimea). In 1962, in Camp No. 17, Androsiuk tried to escape from the industrial zone. When S. BABYCH turned off the lights in the “forbidden zone,” Androsiuk headed for the palisade, but hearing the sound of soldiers’ footsteps behind it, he turned back. He had intended, after escaping, to wait for the release of BABYCH and Makarenko to go underground and fight against the occupiers of Ukraine. Androsiuk did not succeed in escaping. He served his sentence in camps No. 7 (Sosnovka) and No. 3 (Barashevo). His case was reviewed, and his sentence was reduced to 10 years.
He was released in March 1969. He returned to the village of Raimisto. In the spring of 1975, he received a one-year prison sentence on a baseless charge of hooliganism. He served his sentence in a camp near the city of Korosten, Zhytomyr oblast. In May 1976, he agreed to S. BABYCH’s proposal to go underground and create an underground group—something like a combat unit. However, due to BABYCH’s arrest, the plan could not be realized. He was ill in the last years of his life. He has not been rehabilitated. He is survived by a daughter (in Irkutsk) and a son (in Lutsk).
Source:
Serhiy Babych. Down the Road of Absurdity. – Zhytomyr: Ruta. – 2016. – pp. 54, 62, 67-68, 72-74, 78, 81, 84-85, 90, 93, 105, 201, 203, 207, 209, 213, 223. https://museum.khpg.org/1422216520
Serhiy Babych