THE NATIONAL UNION OF
JOURNALISTS OF UKRAINE
With deep sadness, the board of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) announces the death of a well-known journalist/Honored Journalist of Ukraine/editor-in-chief of Selianska Hazeta/long-time chair of the Kharkiv regional organization of the NUJU, Oleksandr Oleksandrovych [patronymic name] Holub.
“The NUJU team expresses sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of our great friend,” wrote the President of the NUJU, Sergiy Tomilenko, on Facebook. “Oleksandr Oleksandrovych spent the last weeks in the hospital, struggling with the consequences of a sudden illness – a stroke. He took the war events close to heart, offered informational resistance to the occupiers, was extremely worried about being separated from his family, which is staying abroad…”
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Holub was born on January 9, 1955. He graduated from H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University (1976). He was a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, and in 1987, he became a journalist.
He worked as a teacher at Krasnohrad Secondary School 3, a correspondent/head of the department of the Krasnohrad district newspaper, the editor of the Nova Vodolaha district newspaper, a correspondent/editor of the Kharkiv regional newspaper Panorama; the editor-in-chief of the republican Selianska Hazeta. Since 1992, he has been the editor-in-chief of the All-Ukrainian Selianska Hazeta. He also was a member of the Kharkiv Regional Council for three tenures (1998-2010); board chairperson of the Kharkiv regional organization of the NUJU (since 2006); Honored Journalist of Ukraine (2004); a delegate to the congresses of the NUJU and a board member of the Union.
Dear Oleksandr Oleksandrovych! Eternal memory to you! Rest in peace…
The team of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine
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