Political prisoner Ivan Mihus from Stalin's concentration camps has died.

Ukrainian artist and writer Ivan Mihus passed away at the age of 92. This was reported by the press service of the Lviv City Council.

Ivan Mihus was born on June 17, 1933, in a Ukrainian family in the village of Ulgivok. In 1946, his family was resettled to the USSR as part of a 'population exchange' program.

From 1949 to 1955, Ivan Mihus was held in forced labor camps in Mordovia and the Ural. In 1959, he was sentenced to 13 years for supporting the Sixtiers. In 2018, he published his autobiography 'Boomerang, or in the clutches of the red devil,' where he described his own experiences during those years.

'I tried to write my autobiographical novel. It starts with my youth. It describes the resettlement in Zakerzonnia, where I was born, my first arrest, meeting with Petro Franko, Mordovia, prison, and meeting with Yosyp Slipyi,' Mihus noted.

Today in Lviv, a memorial service will be held at the Chapel of the Nativity of John the Baptist at 19:00, and the funeral ceremony will take place tomorrow at 14:00 in the Garrison Church of Saints Peter and Paul. A city-wide farewell ceremony is also scheduled at Rynok Square at 14:35. The funeral of Ivan Mihus will take place at Lychakiv Cemetery.

In the Orenburg region of Russia, political prisoner Konstantin Shyrynh also died, who was illegally convicted in temporarily occupied Crimea.

The President's representative in Crimea Tamila Tasheva stated that after the deoccupation of Crimea, all political prisoners who are in prisons for fabricated charges by the occupiers will be released without review of the cases.