Oles Berdnyk

 ( 1926 Births ) 

Oleksandr ( Oles) Pavlovych Berdnyk (; November 27, 1926, officially December 25, 1927 - March 18, 2003) was a Ukrainian Fantastique, Futurism and Global studies, philosopher and Theology, Activism, Red Army soldier during World War II, and a political prisoner in Soviet camps. He wrote more than 20 novels and short stories that have been translated into many languages, including English, German, French, Russian, and Hungarian. He has been described as the most influential classic writer of Ukrainian science fiction.

He was a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and a leader of the Ukrainian Humanist Association "Ukrainian Spiritual Republic."

• Ukrainian Helsinki Group
• Soviet dissidents
• List of Slavic Native Faith's organisations
• Slavic Native Faith
• Mykhailo Melnyk