In 1952, Sverstiuk worked as a Ukrainian language teacher in
Pochaiv in the village of
Bohdanivka of the Pidvolochy district (1953). He was a teacher of Ukrainian literature at the Poltava Pedagogical University (1956–1959) and a senior researcher at the Scientific Research Institute of Psychology (1959–1960). From 1961 to 1962, Sverstiuk was the head of the prose department of the magazine
Vitchyzna. Then, from 1962 to 1965, he was a senior researcher in the department of psychological education at the Research Institute of Psychology (1962–1965). From 1962 to 1972, Sverstiuk was the secretary of the
Ukrainian Botanical Journal (1965–1972). From October 1983 to 1988, Sverstiuk worked as a carpenter at the Kyiv industrial sewing factory No. 2. In the summer of 1988, together with comrades from the
Ukrainian Communist Party, Sverstiuk honored the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus-Ukraine near the monument of St. Volodymyr. After the declaration of Ukraine's independence, Sverstiuk was an active ideologist of the
desovietization of the country. His publications devoted to overcoming the Soviet legacy in spiritual life are widely known. He was one of the participants of the "First of December" initiative group, an association of Ukrainian intellectuals and public figures created in 2011. In its composition, he was one of the authors of the National Act of Freedom, a social contract proposed to the
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, which was published on 14 February 2014 and was intended to find ways out of the political crisis. Yevhen Sverstiuk died on 1 December 2014, twelve days before his 87th birthday. He was buried on 4 December 2014 at the
Baikove cemetery (plot No. 33). The burial ceremony took place in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin of the
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), and the
Teacher's House in Kyiv. == Writings ==