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Mykhailo Semenko
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| Intro | Ukrainian writer and poet | ||
| Was | Writer Poet | ||
| From | Russia Germany | ||
| Field | Literature | ||
| Gender | male | ||
| Birth | 31 December 1892, Kibintsi, Mirgorodsky Uyezd, Poltava Governorate, Ukraine | ||
| Death | 23 October 1937, Kyiv, Ukraine (aged 44 years) | ||
| Star sign | Capricorn | ||
| Politics | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party | ||
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Biography
Mykhaylo Vasyliovich Semenko (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Васи́льович Семе́нко) was a Ukrainian poet, and a prominent representative of Ukrainian futurist poetry of the 1920s. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of Executed Renaissance.
He was a founder of futurist groups Aspanfut, Komunkult, Nova Generatsiya, and Kverofuturism, better known in English as "Panfuturism". He was an editor in couple of almanacs and the journal "Nova generatsiya". As a poet Semenko wrote primarily for urban audiences. Semenko was arrested in 1937 and executed by NKVD in Solovki prison camp during the Great Purge. In the 1957 he was rehabilitated.
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- Юрій Лавріненко. Розстріляне відродження: Антологія 1917–1933. — Київ: Смолоскип, 2004. (in Ukrainian)
- Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Semenko, Mykhailo
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