Sixtiers

The Sixtiers emerged at the intersection of Soviet Union ideas of culture and nationalism. Much of the Ukrainian intelligentsia was wiped out during Stalin's purges and Ukrainian partisan movements during the World War II were discredited. The Executed Renaissance lead to the death or deportation of Generations of Ukrainian thinkers.{{Cite journal |last=Romanets |first=Maryna |date=2014-08-09 |title=Oksana Zabuzhko. Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex. Trans. Halyna Hryn. |url=https://doi.org/10.21226/t2cc76 |journal=East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=87 |doi=10.21226/t2cc76 |issn=2292-7956|doi-access=free }} This created a void in Ukrainian language art and literature.

The Soviet Union promoted an idea of a local culture of each member Republic that was united by a higher Russian culture.{{Citation |last=Martin |first=Terry |title=Modernization or Neo-traditionalism? Ascribed Nationality and Soviet Primordialism |date=2000 |work=Russian Modernity |pages=161–182 |url=https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288126_8 |access-date=2025-05-06 |place=London |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |doi=10.1057/9780230288126_8 |isbn=978-1-349-41292-1|url-access=subscription }} This created a sense of superiority within the Academy where Ukrainian language and work was downplayed and admission to Kyiv University reserved for Ethnic Russians.{{Cite journal |last=Poliszczuk |first=Jarosław |date=2022-12-30 |title=Koncepcja pokolenia lat 60. w dyskursie kulturowym |url=https://doi.org/10.14746/sup.2022.10.2.10 |journal=Studia Ukrainica Posnaniensia |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=145–157 |doi=10.14746/sup.2022.10.2.10 |issn=2720-1953|doi-access=free }}

In 1952-53, Soviet Officials arrested or expelled a number of students at the Ukrainian Division of the Kyiv University Philological Faculty for demonstrating a "nationalist deviation" in their work. A 1953 Komsomol investigation into the Division declared the Ukrainian Nationals as "queer fish" (svoeobraznye chudaki, in Russian) or eccentrics. Students at Kyiv University who would become the leaders in the Sixtier movement faced a stigma as being Ukrainian peasants while also benefiting from the upward mobility of Soviet education.

Following the death of Stalin in 1954 a "thaw" began that Spread in Soviet culture and Academies. The Sixtiers emerged from a cultural policy used as an instrument of implementing Soviet discourse that got rooted in International socialist realism and romantics of Nationalism.{{Citation |title=The Supreme Soviet Human Rights Committee |date=2004-06-24 |work=Defending Human Rights in Russia |pages=87–137 |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203348727-11 |access-date=2025-05-06 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9780203348727-11 |isbn=978-0-203-34872-7|url-access=subscription }}

Three major events would further shape the worldviews of many of the Sixitiers. In Kurenivka near the center of Kyiv, a dam, which the Soviet Government had used for waste disposal from a brick factory, burst, causing the Kurenivka mudslide. An estimated 54 people died but the KGB buried the story for days and the official account did not match the experience of eyewitnesses. Second, the fire at the State Public Library in Kyiv the evening of May 24, 1964, was also a noted influence on the Sixtiers. Finally, on 4 September 1965, at film premiere of in Kyiv literary critic Ivan Dziuba tried to call out the prosecution of Ukrainian Intelligentsia following a series of arrests.

Russian literary critic Stanislav Rassadin coined the term "sixiter" in 1960, writing for a literary journal, referring to a new generation of Soviet writers. The term quickly spread among scholars in Ukraine who found themselves part of a national reawakening.

By 1962, the term "Sixtier" was being used in literary and political science journals in Western media and academic circles.{{Cite book |last=Luckyj |first=George S. N. |url=https://doi.org/10.7312/luck91836 |title=Literary Politics in the Soviet Ukraine 1917–1934 |date=1956-12-31 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-88571-3}}Artists in Ukraine used the term to self-identify. Les' Taniuk in his diaries first noted, "He liked this word,” and following the death of poet Vasyl Symonenko in 1963 Taniak declared the period of the "Sixtiers over.{{Cite journal |last=Mokryk |first=Radomyr. |date=2023 |title=The Sixtiers: Ukrainian Generation of the Thaw and its Historical Experience. |journal=Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history) |volume=108 |issue=1 |pages=11-34}}

After Ukrainian Independence in 1991, a renewed interest grew in the Sixtiers. As a more open account of history emerged, notable figures were added to the list of accepted Sxitiers. Prestige was assigned to those took intellectual or artistic stances against the communist regime.

Many mark the 1959 publication of Yurii Lavrynenko's book The Executed Renaissance: Anthology 1917-1933. Poetry - Prose - Drama - Essays in Paris, as the beginning of the Sixtier movement. The book which reached Ukraine in the 1960s was often hand copied and spread as Samvydav. Cultural activities of the Sixtiers including informal literary readings and art exhibitions, vigils in memory of repressed artists, and theatre performances grew in popularity. During the brief liberalization of USSR from 1957 to 1962, the Sixtier movement flourished but soon faced Prosecution.

In 1959, The Club of Creative Youth "Contemporary" (Klub Tvorchoï Molodi, KTM ) was founded by Les' Taniuk in Kyiv. Taniuk, concerned formal education in Ukraine looked down on the Ukrainian language and felt Lenin modified Marxist theories on the nationality question to fit the multinational reality of the Soviet Union. He then wrote to friends to establish a Playhouse. The Club was formed with the Komsomol, the Union of the Communist Youth, which allowed for official recognition and around offered a way to avoid censorship{{Cite journal |last=Achilli |first=Alessandro |date=2023-03-20 |title=Review of Simone Attilio Bellezza. The Shore of Expectations: A Cultural Study of the Shistdesiatnyky. |url=https://doi.org/10.21226/ewjus794 |journal=East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=183–185 |doi=10.21226/ewjus794 |issn=2292-7956|doi-access=free }} and coordinated with the Writer's Union. The Club put on plays such as Pathetic Sonata or read works by banished authors such as Todos’ Os’machka.

In 1960, Taniuk would introduce Vasyl Symonenko to the Club. Symonenko studied journalism at Kyiv University from 1952 to 1957. He then served as editor of the literary departments of two regional newspapers, "Cherkas’ka Pravda" and the 'Molod' Cherkashchyny."{{Cite journal |last=Achilli |first=Alessandro |date=2023-03-20 |title=Review of Simone Attilio Bellezza. The Shore of Expectations: A Cultural Study of the Shistdesiatnyky. |url=https://doi.org/10.21226/ewjus794 |journal=East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=183–185 |doi=10.21226/ewjus794 |issn=2292-7956|doi-access=free }}

By 1962, the KTM had taken on a more Nationalistic fervor. For example, Hors’ka considered herself a Russified Ukrainian and used the KTM members to practice language skills and relearn culture and traditions. The KTM began to sponsor remembrances to those lost in Stalin's purges and field trips to historical Ukrainian sites. Ivan Dziuba, joined KTM in 1962. He had registered with the University and Komsomol as Russian and credited KTM for his "‘self-Ukrainization’" and he published a book based on his dissertation, "A Special Person or a Mishchanyn." Dziuba joined Symonenko in organizing literary events.{{Cite journal |last=Bellezza |first=Simone |date=2010 |title=The Shistdesiatnytstvo as a Group of Friends: The Kompaniia of the Club of the Creative Youth of Kiev (1960–1965) |journal=Snodi: Pubblici e Privati Nella Storia Contemporanea |volume=3 |issue=5 |pages=64–82}}

Since the freethinking Sixtiers failed to keep within the official ideological and aesthetic boundaries, their cultural activities caused dissatisfaction of the authorities. The end of 1962 marked the start of massive pressure on the nonconformist intelligentsia. The Sixtiers were not allowed to be published, and were accused of "formalism," "inaction," and "bourgeois nationalism".

"Prolisok", or "Snowdrop" formed in Lviv in 1963 by Ihor Mironovych Kalynets after he went to a poetry reading by Ivan Drach and Ivan Dziuba. Both were active in the Club of Creative Youth and encouraged Kalynets. Snowdrop, like KTM was created under formally under the regional committee of the Komsomol. club "Snowdrop" (founded in 1962).{{Cite web |title=Kalynets, Ihor Mironovych |url=https://museum.khpg.org/en/1113911518 |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=Dissident movement in Ukraine}} The Sixtiers restored the traditions of the classical pre-revolutionary intelligentsia, which aspired to spiritual independence, political alienation, the ideals of civil society and service to the people.

Soon, word of the literary houses spread. Next to join were a group of artists lead by Alla Hors’ka. The artists challenged State dogma and Hors’ka’s apartment in Kyiv became a second meeting place. The KTM continued to grow taking on poets, literary critics, and historians.{{Cite journal |last=Bellezza |first=Simone |date=2010 |title=The Shistdesiatnytstvo as a Group of Friends: The Kompaniia of the Club of the Creative Youth of Kiev (1960–1965) |journal=Snodi: Pubblici e Privati Nella Storia Contemporanea |volume=3 |issue=5 |pages=64–82}}

KTM and Prolisok arranged for an unauthorized choir to sing in Myiv Central Park on 31 August 1963. Then in December Symonenko died of cancer while in Soviet Custody. Many accused the Soviet State of denying Symonenko lifesaving care. KTm organized "Literaturna Ukraïna" to commemorate Symonenko 's life. KTM would be forced to close in 1964.{{Cite web |last=Zakharov |first=Borys |date=19 September 2005 |title=Клуби творчої молоді (КТМ) |trans-title=Artistic Youths' Club (KTM) |url=https://museum.khpg.org/1127153242 |access-date=27 May 2024 |website=Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group |language=uk}}

In 1964, Alla Horska, together with Opanas Zalyvakha, Lyudmyla Semykina, Halyna Sevruk, and Halyna Zubchenko, created the stained glass "Shevchenko. Mother" in the vestibule of the main building of Kyiv University. It depicted a poet with a woman leaning against him symbolizing Mother Ukraine. Unfortunately, the university administration, acting with the tacit consent of the party leadership, ordered rthe destruction of “ideologically divergent” stained glass window for not complying with proper aesthetic values{{Cite web |title=Alla Horska. Unveiling the artistic legacy and fearless activism of a Ukrainian Sixties artist |url=https://www.weareukraine.info/special/alla-horska-unveiling-the-artistic-legacy-and-fearless-activism-of-a-ukrainian-sixties-artist/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=We Are Ukraine |language=uk}} After this incident, a commission classified the stained glass as ideologically hostile and deeply incompatible with the principles of socialist realism. Horska and Semykina were expelled from the Artists' Union, but they were reinstated a year later.{{Cite web |title=Alla Horska |url=https://treasures.ui.org.ua/horska_en |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=treasures.ui.org.ua}}

A massive fire that lasted two days broke out at the State Public Library in Kyiv on May 24,1964. Hundreds of thousands of books and manuscripts on Ukrainian history were lost or destroyed. This had a massive impact on the young intellectuals. Sverstiuk wrote an essay under the title "On the Occasion of Pohruzhalsky’s Trial," which raised suspicion that the fire meant to erase Ukrainian history.{{Cite journal |last=Mokryk |first=Radomyr |date=2023 |title=The Sixtiers: Ukrainian Generation of the Thaw and its Historical Experience |journal=Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history) |volume=108 |issue=1 |pages=11-34}}

In response, the ideas of the Sixtiers began to spread in Samvydav and the Writer's Union continued to host events. In January 1965, the Writers’ Union nominated Symonenko for the Shevchenko prize, the highest Ukrainian award for writers. A remembrance was also sponsored in Kyiv attended by Symonenko's mother. Finally, Symonenko's Diaries were published abroad, which triggered a crackdown from the KGB.{{Cite journal |last=Bellezza |first=Simone |date=2010 |title=The Shistdesiatnytstvo as a Group of Friends: The Kompaniia of the Club of the Creative Youth of Kiev (1960–1965) |journal=Snodi: Pubblici e Privati Nella Storia Contemporanea |volume=3 |issue=5 |pages=64–82}}

The crackdown on the young intellectuals was quick. As many as 200{{Cite news |last=Kurlander |first=David |date=14 March 2022 |title='Like a Cold Serpent': Vyacheslav Chornovil and Cold War Ukrainian Dissidence |url=https://cafe.com/article/like-a-cold-serpent-vyacheslav-chornovil-and-cold-war-ukrainian-dissidence/ |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=CAFE}} Ukrainian Sixtiers were arrested in a 1965–1966 purge.{{Cite web |last=Prokop |first=Myroslav |title=Dissident movement |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CD%5CI%5CDissidentmovement.htm |access-date=14 May 2024 |website=Encyclopedia of Ukraine}} Hoska's apartment came under KGB surveillance.{{Cite web |title=Alla Horska |url=https://treasures.ui.org.ua/horska_en |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=treasures.ui.org.ua}} In April 1965, "Radians’ka Ukraina" published a forgery claiming to be Symonenko’s mother, accusing other Sixtiers of betraying her son. In August, many young intellectuals were rounded up and arrested.{{Cite journal |last=Bellezza |first=Simone |date=2010 |title=The Shistdesiatnytstvo as a Group of Friends: The Kompaniia of the Club of the Creative Youth of Kiev (1960–1965) |journal=Snodi: Pubblici e Privati Nella Storia Contemporanea |volume=3 |issue=5 |pages=64–82}}

On September 4, 1965, during the premiere of Sergei Parajanov's film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors in Kyiv's Ukrayina cinema, many Sixtiers spoke to protest against the arrests of Ukrainian young intelligentsia. Many faced repression, such Vasyl Stus who lost his job at State Historical Archive.{{Cite web |title=STUS, Vasyl Semenovych |url=https://museum.khpg.org/en/1114000264 |access-date=2025-05-09 |website=Dissident movement in Ukraine}}

Faced with fierce resistance from the party apparatus, some of the Sixtiers compromised with the authorities, while others evolved into political dissidents, members of the human rights movement, and open opposition to the regime. Ivan Dziuba would publish "Internationalism and Russification?" In 1967, Chornovil would collect tales of the arrested Sixtiers and publish "Woe from Wit."{{Cite web |title=CHORNOVIL, Viacheslav Maksymovych |url=https://museum.khpg.org/en/1114001517 |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=Dissident movement in Ukraine}}

Following Perestroika, the Sixtiers started to gather again.{{Cite web |title=CHORNOVIL, Viacheslav Maksymovych |url=https://museum.khpg.org/en/1114001517 |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=Dissident movement in Ukraine}}In 1989 Ivan Drach, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Mykhailo Horyn founded Popular Movement of Ukraine (Rukh).{{Cite web |title=DRACH, Ivan Fedorovych |url=https://museum.khpg.org/1142694321 |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=Дисидентський рух в Україні}}

Many Sixtiers would go on to serve in Ukrainian politics and the art scene following independence in 1991.{{Cite news |date=18 March 2016 |title=Умер выдающийся режиссер и политик Лесь Танюк |trans-title=Distinguished director and politician Les Tanyuk dies |url=http://www.segodnya.ua/politics/society/umer-vydayushchiysya-rezhisser-i-politik-les-tanyuk-700541.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320175317/http://www.segodnya.ua/politics/society/umer-vydayushchiysya-rezhisser-i-politik-les-tanyuk-700541.html |archive-date=20 March 2016 |work=Segodnya |language=ru}}

The rise of the Ukrainian language, culture, and history at Kyiv University encouraged students to think about the national question. The Sixtiers were distinguished by their liberal and anti-totalitarian views, and romanticism, which found vivid expressions in music and visual arts.{{Citation |title=The Poetry of the Sixtiers and Europe: Between Culture and Politics |date=2017-12-31 |work=Ukraine and Europe |pages=390–413 |url=https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487512507-021 |access-date=2025-05-06 |publisher=University of Toronto Press|doi=10.3138/9781487512507-021 |isbn=978-1-4875-1250-7 |url-access=subscription }} The Sixtiers believed in Communist ideals, they had come to be strongly disappointed with Stalin's regime and its repression of basic civil liberties.

The Sixtiers goal of reviving national identity within a spirit Soviet socialism that rejected Russian chauvinism. But tension existed between the art and the Communist Party. Stylistically, the Sixtiers are noted more for their formalism drawing on Soviet doctrine of social realism.{{Cite web |title=Socialist Realism Movement Overview |url=https://www.theartstory.org/movement/socialist-realism/ |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=The Art Story}} Many of the projects completed by Sixtiers, both literary and artistic, were the result of State funded commissions.{{Cite web |title=Alla Horska - Sixtiers Movement Leader |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/story/alla-horska-sixtiers-movement-leader-ukrainian-institute/4AXRWEX3FVMDtQ?hl=en |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=Google Arts & Culture |language=en}} Marxist aesthetics felt art should be politicized to transmit the Socialist messages.{{Cite web |date=2017-01-27 |title=Marxism, Art and Utopia: Critical Theory and Political Aesthetics |url=https://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/marxism-art-and-utopia-critical-theory-and-political-aesthetics-1 |access-date=2025-05-07 |website=Red Wedge |language=en-US}} Russia also had a long and proud tradition of social critique through realist painting such as the Society for Itinerant Art Exhibitions, commonly known as Peredvizhniki. Through this ambiguous relationship with the State{{Cite journal |last=Yekelchyk |first=Serhy |date=January 2015 |title=The early 1960s as a cultural space: a microhistory of Ukraine's generation of cultural rebels |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S009059920002225X/type/journal_article |journal=Nationalities Papers |language=en |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=45–62 |doi=10.1080/00905992.2014.954103 |issn=0090-5992|url-access=subscription }} and the traditions of realism, the Sixtiers carved out a movement that evolved from a re-awakening of Ukrainian Nationalism to a dissident movement.

The artistic and academic impact of the Sixtiers first underwent elements of renewed nationalism. At KDU, a literary studio called "SICh", an acronym for the Chumak Studio, had a double meaning as a reference to the Zaporizhian Cossack State. This allowed literary critics, artists, and scientists to meet in a forum to discuss Ukrainian Culture. They argued a return to Leninist Norms from Stalinist norms would address that "Nationality" question without Russian Chauvinism. Thus, the rising Nationalism within the movement was not so much anti-Soviet as many embraced the idea of International Socialism returning to roots of Lenin.{{Cite journal |last=Rossoni |first=Gianni |date=December 2010 |title=Lombardia: i servizi pubblici e privati per il lavoro nella crisi |url=https://doi.org/10.3280/qt2010-039004 |journal=QT Quaderni di Tecnostruttura |issue=39 |pages=13–15 |doi=10.3280/qt2010-039004 |issn=1828-5163|url-access=subscription }} This form of dissident socialism allowed for the awakening of a national identity while meeting strict part standards.{{Cite thesis |last=Sosenko, A. N. (2024). T (Doctoral dissertation, Northern Illinois University). |first=Alexander Nicholas |date=2024 |title=The Human Faces of Dissident Socialism: The Fight for Human Rights in Soviet Ukraine |journal=Unpublished Dissertation |publisher=Northern Illonois University}}

Over time, the movement began to take on more dissident tones in response to growing tensions over public performances of their work. The Sixtiers worked within the constraints and through the Komsomol apparatus in relationship where Komsomol acted as both a controlling and an enabling agent for what would later become dissident artist and writers. Together with the Writers' Union, the Komsomol provided venues for exhibits and meetings. The Sixtiers were neither separate nor in total opposition of larger Soviet Ukrainian culture, but also tapped into a world of non-conformist culture that emerged across the Globe, such as the Beatniks in the 1950's and Hippies in the 1960's.

The impact of the Sixtiers on art and literacy is often projected through the lens of diaspora scholars in North America but recent efforts since 1991 have allowed a re-examination of canon from a Ukrainian and Eastern European perspective. Some critics say poetry and paintings of the Sixtiers created a double emancipation by returning to a more formalism{{Citation |title=The Poetry of the Sixtiers and Europe: Between Culture and Politics |date=2017-12-31 |work=Ukraine and Europe |pages=390–413 |editor-last=Brogi Bercoff |editor-first=Giovanna |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781487512507-021/html |access-date=2025-05-06 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |doi=10.3138/9781487512507-021 |isbn=978-1-4875-1250-7 |editor2-last=Pavlyshyn |editor2-first=Marko |editor3-last=Plokhy |editor3-first=Serhii|url-access=subscription }} to protect Ukrainian heritage while working within the approved doctrine of social realism.{{Cite journal |last=Kulish |first=Yuliia |date=2025 |title=The 1960s as a Landmark of Ukrainian Literary Emancipation (American and French Comparative Aspects) |url=https://doi.org/10.62119/icla.3.8956 |journal=Re–Imagining Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins |publisher=Georgian Comparative Literature Association |doi=10.62119/icla.3.8956|isbn=978-9941-36-276-7 |url-access=subscription }}

In art, the Sixtiers brought in a period of romanticism celebrating Ukrainian peasant life, traditional fashion, or cultural art symbols such as Pysansky Eggs (Ukrainian: писанка, писанки (pl.)).{{Cite web |title=The Ukrainian Sixties: A Cultural Renaissance Behind the Iron Curtain |url=https://ukraineworld.org/en/articles/basics/ukrainian-sixties-iron-curtain |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=ukraineworld.org |language=en}} These elements brought in a period of social-realist canon that celebrated the social ideal.{{Cite web |title=The Guard of the Ukrainian "Sixtiers" |url=https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/40676-the-guard-of-the-ukrainian-sixtiers-lizaveta-german/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Hauser & Wirth |language=en}} The artist would often balance double meaning of undisclosed political protest through commissions of state- projects.

Among the Sixtiers, a group of literary critics remained committed to translating Western titles into Ukraine. They had a subversive goal of trying to bring with them the West's ideas, imagery, and cultural trends.{{Cite web |title=The Guard of the Ukrainian "Sixtiers" |url=https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/40676-the-guard-of-the-ukrainian-sixtiers-lizaveta-german/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Hauser & Wirth |language=en}}

The Ukrainian Sixtiers movement was dominated by national ideas.{{Cite web |last=Siundukov |first=Ihor |date=1 March 2005 |title=The "Sixtiers." Looking into The Past and Future. Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, Pavlo Tychyna, Vasyl Stus, and Borys Antonenko-Davydovych in the life of Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/personality/sixtiers-looking-past-and-future |website=День (Day)}} Many Ukrainian Sixtiers defended the national language and culture, and freedom of artistic creativity. The Sixtiers consisted of writers, painters, textile, film directors, and translators.

Authors

• Ivan Drach
• Valeriy Shevchuk
• Mykola Vingranovsky
• Volodymyr Drozd
• Hryhir Tiutiunnyk
• Borys Oliynyk
• Vasyl Stus
• Dmytro Pavlychko
• Vasyl Symonenko
• Mykola Kholodny
• Lina Kostenko
• Yevhen Hutsalo
• Boris Chichibabin

Painters and Textiles

• Alla Horska
• Viktor Zaretsky
• Lyubov Panchenko{{Cite web |title="The 60s. Lost Treasures" Project Highlights Ukrainian Women Artists on Google Arts & Culture - Oj |url=https://odessa-journal.com/the-project-the-60s-lost-treasures-about-ukrainian-women-artists-from-the-sixties-has-been-presented-on-google-arts--culture |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=odessa-journal.com |language=en}}

Literary and Art critics

• Ivan Dziuba
• Yevhen Sverstyuk
• Vitalii Donchyk
• Roman Korogodsky
• Yurii Smyrny.

Theater and Film Directors

• Les Tanyuk
• Sergei Parajanov
• Yuri Ilyenko{{Cite web |date=2024-05-19 |title=Remembering the Talented Ukrainian Minds Killed by the Soviet Union and Now, Russia |url=https://united24media.com/culture/remembering-the-talented-ukrainian-minds-killed-by-the-soviet-union-and-now-russia-390 |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Umited24 Media |language=en}}

Translators

• Hryhorii Kochur
• Mykola Lukash
• Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska{{Cite web |title=The Guard of the Ukrainian "Sixtiers" |url=https://www.hauserwirth.com/ursula/40676-the-guard-of-the-ukrainian-sixtiers-lizaveta-german/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Hauser & Wirth |language=en}}

Journalists

• Viacheslav Chornovil

An examination of an art movement or generation within Ukraine presents challenges in Ukrainian history{{Cite book |last=Rarytskyi |first=O. A. |title=Partytury tekstu i dukhu (Khudozhno-dokumentalna proza ukrainskykh shistdesiatnykiv)[Scores of text and spirit (Art-documentary prose of the Ukrainian sixties)]. |publisher=Smoloskyp. |year=2016 |location=Kyiv}} as they rely on fragmentary materials published in memoirs, diaries, and interviews with other materials and lives lost in persecution. This research is conducted in a period of Ukrainian independence which has lead some critics to suggest the literary work of the sixtiers gets conflated with building a national mythology and the sixtiers get idolized.{{Cite book |last=Polishchuk|first=Ya |title=Postkolonializm, generatsii, kultura, za red |date=2014 |publisher=Laurus |year=2014 |location=Kyiv |pages=162-175. |trans-title=Memory and postmemory based on Lina Kostenko’s novel Notes of a Ukrainian Madman |chapter=Pamiat i postpamiat’(na materiali romanu Liny Kostenko Zapysky ukrainskoho samashedshoho}}

• Ukrainian Underground
• Executed Renaissance
• Creative Youth Club

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