In 1963 Symonenko was brutally beaten up by operatives of the Soviet Ministry of Interior at the Shevchenko rail station in the city of Smila from which he suffered a failure of kidneys and soon died in the main oblast hospital on December 13, 1963.
Vasyl Stefanyk | Vasyl Fedoryshyn | Vasyl Stus | Vasyl Shevchuk |