Mykhaylo Osadchy (Ukrainian: Осадчий Михайло Григорович; March 22, 1936 in Kurmany, Nedryhailiv Raion, Sumy Oblast, UkSSR – July 5, 1994 in Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine) was a Ukrainian journalist, poet, writer, and dissident.

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Mykhaylo Osadchy graduated from Lviv University in 1958.^[1] He taught there from 1960 to 1965. He was arrested in 1965, spent 8 months waiting for a court decision and was finally sentenced to two years' imprisonment in 1966. He was tried together with Mykhailo, Horyn's brother Bohdan Horyn, and M. Zvarychevska.^[1]

Osadchy was arrested for the second time January 1972.^[2] That September he was sentenced to seven years of labour camp and three years of exile.^[2]

He was able to return to teaching at Lviv University in 1990. In 1992, Osadchy became a member of the Writer's Union of Ukraine.

Osadchy's first book of poetry, 'The Moonlit Field' (Ukrainian: Місячне поле), was published in 1965 before his arrest. In 1971 his memoir 'Cataract' (Ukrainian: Більмо), was published. It was translated into French in 1974^[3] and into English by Marco Carynnyk in 1976.^[4] His second collection of poems was published in 1979 and was called 'Quos ego'. The third one, 'The Scythian Altar' (Ukrainian: Скифський вівтар), was published in 1990.

• M. Osadchy. Misyachne pole [Moonlit field].— Kamenyar, Lviv, 1965
• M. Osadchy. Bilmo: Avtobiohrafichny narys [Cataract. An autobiographical portrait] — Paris – Baltimore: Smoloskyp 1971
• M. Osadchy. Zustrich z vozhdem [Meeting with the leader] // Ukrainsky visnyk, 1987, №8.— pp. 18–25.