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On May 18, 1979, he was found hanged in the Bryukhovytsky Forest near Lviv. The official Soviet version - suicide - has been questioned by the public both then and now. According to the unofficial version, Ivasyuk's death was a murder committed by the KGB on the orders of the top leadership of the USSR [4]. Volodymyr Ivasyuk's funeral on May 22, 1979 in Lviv turned into a mass protest against Soviet rule.
The archives of this case, which are kept in Moscow, are still not opened to Ivasyuk's relatives or museum staff, referring to the label "secret", perhaps because many participants in those dramatic events are still alive. Ivasyuk's own relatives believe that Volodymyr was killed.
On January 26, 2009, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reopened a long-closed criminal case into the death of Volodymyr Ivasyuk, [6] but in November 2012 the case was closed for alleged lack of corpus delicti.
On June 12, 2014, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine resumed the closed criminal case on the death of Volodymyr Ivasyuk [7].
Former prosecutor of the Lviv region Roman Fedik in February 2015 [8] [9] stated that Volodymyr Ivasyuk was killed by "KGB officers".
On June 13, 2019, the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Science came to the conclusion that the composer-performer Volodymyr Ivasyuk could not physically commit suicide [10] [11].a
