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Vasyl Shkliar
Vasyl Mykolayovych Shkliar (; born 10 June 1951 in Hanzhalivka, Lysianka Raion) is a Ukrainian writer and political activist. He is one of the most well known and widely read, contemporary Ukrainian authors. Some observers have even named him the “Father of the Ukrainian Bestseller”. The Committee of the Shevchenko National Prize declared him a Shevchenko Prize Laureate in 2011. Early life and education He was born in the village of Hanzhalivka, Lysianka Raion (currently Zvenyhorodka Raion), Cherkasy Oblast), Cherkasy Oblast, where he began school. Subsequently, the family moved to the town of Zvenyhorodka, where Shkliar completed his tenth year of schooling with the award of a silver medal (1968), and subsequently enrolled to the faculty of philology of Kyiv University. He was almost expelled because, during a labour semester at a collective farm he discovered a grenade among some potatoes and laid it in a fire he had kindled in a misguided attempt to neutralise th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Vasyl Chuchupak
Vasyl Stepanovych Chuchupak () (11 March 1895 – 12 April 1920) was the leader of the Kholodny Yar Ukrainian partisan movement during the Ukrainian War of Independence. Biography Born in 1895 in the village Melnyky in the Chyhyryn region, Chuchupak served in the Imperial Russian Army with his brother Petro and was a village teacher. Chuchupak's family was highly regarded within the Melnyky village. They were wealthy peasants and provided a good education for their offsprings. In particular, Vasyl's brothers Oleksa Chuchupak and Semen Chuchupak were village teachers, and Petro Chuchupak studied in Kyiv Academy of Music, furthermore, some of his relatives were priests, namely, Demian and Avtonom Chuchupaks. Chuchupak was the leader ( Otaman) of the Kholodnyi Yar Ukrainian partisan movement during the Ukrainian War of Independence. In current Cherkasy Raion this movement formed the Kholodny Yar Republic that lasted from 1919 to 1922 were they fought for Ukrainian indep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Cherkasy Oblast
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1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ukrainian-language Writers
This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the Ukrainian language. A *Victoria Amelina (1986–2023), poet and novelist * Nikolai Amosov (1913–2002), novelist, essayist, and medical writer * Emma Andijewska (born 1931), novelist, poet, and short story writer * Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova (1921–1998), journalist, translator, and biographer * Sofia Andrukhovych (born 1982), novelist, translator, and editor * Yuri Andrukhovych (born 1960), novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, and translator * Borys Antonenko-Davydovych (1899–1984), writer, translator and linguist * Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909–1937), poet, translator, and editor B * Kateryna Babkina (born 1985), poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriter * Anna Bagriana (born 1981), novelist, poet, playwright, and translator * Ivan Bahrianyi (1906–1963), poet, novelist, and essayist * Mykola Bakay (1931–1998), poet, and songwriter * Vasyl Barka (1908–2003), poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ukrainian Literature Translated Into English
This is a list of notable works of Ukrainian literature that have been translated into English. ''This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.'' See also * Contemporary Ukrainian literature References {{reflist Further reading * Piaseckyj O. Bibliography of Ukrainian Literature in English and French: Translations and Critical Works (1950–1986). Ottawa ; London ; Paris : University of Ottawa Press, 1989. Ukrainian literature Ukrainian literature The term Ukrainian literature () is normally used to describe works of literature written in the Ukrainian language. In a broader sense it can also relate to all literary works created in the territory of Ukraine. Ukrainian literature mostly de ... Ukraine-related lists Ukrainian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmytro Tabachnyk
Dmytro Volodymyrovych Tabachnyk (, ; born November 26, 1963) is a Russian and former Ukrainian politician who served as the minister of education and science of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014.Tabachnyk becomes education minister (March 11, 2010)Yanukovych appoints new Cabinet of Ministers (December 24, 2012) Tabachnyk is among form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik party, formally established in 1912, seized power in Russia in the October Revolution of 1917, and was later renamed the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party, and ultimately the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Its ideology, based on Leninism, Leninist and later Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist principles, became known as Bolshevism. The origin of the RSDLP split was Lenin's support for a smaller party of professional revolutionaries, as opposed to the Menshevik desire for a broad party membership. The influence of the factions fluctuated in the years up to 1912, when the RSDLP formally split in two. The political philosophy of the Bolsheviks was based on the Leninist pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UNIAN
The Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News () is a Kyiv-based Ukraine, Ukrainian news agency. It produces and provides political, business and financial information, and a photo reporting service. As of October 2022, it was the most visited news site in Ukraine with a 19% market share. UNIAN is a part of 1+1 Media Group, related to Ukrainian oligarchs, oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi. UNIAN was founded in March 1993 as the Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News. The agency's offices are at 4 Khreshchatyk Street, adjacent to European Square (Kyiv), European Square, in Kyiv. UNIAN offers its press conference hall to interested customers. UNIAN runs a TV channel, UNIAN TV, broadcasting news, analytical programs, documentaries, sport and movies. It is available on satellite, cable and IPTV networks. It broadcasts unencrypted from the AMOS-2 satellite (4.0 W), at 10722 Horizonal, 27500. The channel's General Producer is Vladyslav Svinchenko. On August 28, 2013, Oksan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kholodny Republic
Kholodny Yar Republic (1919–1922; ) was a self-proclaimed state formation, partisan movement, which ran on part of the lands of the former Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR — or Ukrainian National Republic, UNR), in the Chyhyryn district of the Kyiv province (modern Cherkasy Oblast), in the area of the Kholodny Yar forest tract. The village of Melnyky was its capital. It had a 15,000-strong army composed of peasants and soldiers from the UNR army, which had been defeated by the White Army in Podolia earlier. History In 1918–1922, the Orthodox Motronynsky Monastery became the center of the Ukrainian insurgent movement against the invaders (German occupiers and Russian "white" and "red" invaders), led by the Chuchupaky brothers. Because of the coup, at the request of the abbot, residents of the village of Melnyky formed a self-defense unit to protect the monastery from looting. The detachment was headed by Oleksiy Chuchupak and consisted of 22 people. Later, in 1919 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Chernomyrdin
Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (, ; 9 April 19383 November 2010) was a Soviet and Russian politician and businessman. He was the Minister of Gas Industry of the Soviet Union (13 February 1985 – 17 July 1989), after which he became first chairman of Gazprom energy company and the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of Russia (1992–1998) based on consecutive years. He was a key figure in Russian politics in the 1990s and a participant in the transition from a Planned economy, planned to a Market economy, market economy. From 2001 to 2009, he was Russia's ambassador to Ukraine. After that, he was designated as a presidential adviser. Chernomyrdin was known in Russia and List of countries where Russian is an official language, Russian-speaking countries for his language style, which contained numerous malapropisms and Syntax, syntactic errors. Many of his sayings became aphorisms and idioms in the Russian language, two examples being the expression "We wanted the best, but it t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
