Stepan Kozhumyaka
Kozhumyaka Stepan Demydovych (Russian: ''Kozhemyakin'') (4 December 1898 – 31 August 1989) was a Ukrainian engineer, bridge-builder and linguist. He took an active part in the 1917–1920 struggle for national liberation, fighting for the cultural, moral and political rights of the Ukrainian people. Kozhumyaka was born in 1898 in Novomyrgorod in the Yelysavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovograd) region, Ukraine. He graduated in 1917 from Yelysavetgrad as a teacher. While he was a student, he issued a magazine called ''Lisovyi Strumok'' ("Forest Brook"), in which he criticized the Soviet government. He played the bandura, wore Ukrainian national clothes, and spoke out about the events of 1918 in Ukraine. In Novomyrgorod in 1922, Kozhumyaka began publishing an illustrated magazine, ''Persha Lastivka'' ("The First Swallow"). He took part in an agricultural community called "Rillya". Because of his sharp political views, he was fired from the position of head of Novomyrgorod ...
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Kozhumyaka Stepan Demydovych
Kozhemyaka (, , meaning a ''leather worker'', ''tanner'') is a gender-neutral Russian surname. It may refer to *Nikita the Tanner (Nikita Kozhemyaka), East Slavic folk hero *Stepan Kozhumyaka (1898–1989), Ukrainian engineer, bridge-builder and linguist See also

*Kozhemyakin, derivative surname {{surname Russian-language surnames Occupational surnames ...
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