caption death_date death_place children birth_place influences nationality name birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
vasyl his poetry '' my people , i will return to stus you '' on the cover of a book of 4 september 1985 -lrb- aged 47 -rrb- kuchino , russian sfsr , soviet union dmytro rakhnivka , ukrainian ssr , soviet union taras shevchenko ukrainian vasyl stus 6 january 1938 valentyna popeliukh stus you.jpg book my people , i will return to vasyl stus
 vasyl semenovych stus poet
vasyl stus

vasyl semenovych stus -lrb- ; january 8 , 1938 -- september 4 , 1985 -rrb- was a ukrainian poet and publicist , one of the most active members of ukrainian dissident movement .
for his political convictions , his works were banned by the soviet regime and he spent 23 years -lrb- about a half of his life -rrb- in detention .
on november 26 , 2005 he was posthumously given the title hero of ukraine by order of the state .
