Mykola Chaban ( uk, Микола Петрович Чабан) is a Soviet and Ukrainian journalist, a Ukrainian prose writer, specialist in

regional studies Area studies (also known as regional studies) are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to particular geographical, national/ federal, or cultural regions. The term exists primarily as a general description for what are, ...

of Dnipropetrovsk region. He is a

Merited Journalist of Ukraine The Honored Journalist (also translated as The Merited Journalist of Ukraine, uk, Заслужений журналіст України) is an honorary title bestowed by Ukraine (before 1991 by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic or SSR) fo ...

(2007). Mykola Chaban was born in

Dnipropetrovsk Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

on 5 March 1958. He graduated from the Faculty of Ukrainian

Philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and writing, written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defin ...

at the

Dnipropetrovsk State University Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (DNU, uk, Дніпровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара) is an establishment of higher education in Dnipro, Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. ...

(specialization - "Ukrainian language and literature"). Since then Chaban worked in newspapers of

Dniprodzerzhynsk Kamianske ( uk, Кам'янське, ), formerly Dniprodzerzhynsk, is an industrial city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine and a port on the Dnieper. Administratively, it serves as the administrative center of Kamianske Raion. Kamianske hosts ...

and

. Currently he works at a Dnipropetrovsk regional newspaper "Zoria" as an editor on cultural issues.

Membership

* National Writers Union of Ukraine * All-Ukrainian Union of regional researchers * International Association of Belarusian Studies

Awards

Valerian Pidmohylny Valerian Petrovych Pidmohylny (Ukrainian: Валер'ян Петрович Підмогильний; 2 February 1901 - 3 November 1937) was a Ukrainian modernist, most famous for the realist novel '' Misto'' (The City). Like a number of Ukra ...

National Writers Union of Ukraine Award (2004) * Khoroshun Award (1993) *

Dmytro Yavornytsky Dmytro Ivanovych Yavornytsky ( uk, Дмитро́ Іва́нович Яворни́цький), or Dmitry Ivanovich Yavornitsky (also known as ''Dmitry Evarnitsky'', russian: Дмитрий Иванович Яворницкий; November 6, 1855, ...

honorary diploma (1994) for the book "Sicheslav in heart" * Person of the Year (Dniprodzerzhynsk 1995) as journalist * Honors of Mayor of Dniprodzerzhynsk (2004) for the book "Journey through old Kamianske" * Laureate of year by the periodical "Courier of Kryvbas" (1994, 1995)

External links

Profile at the Literary Dnipropetrovsk Land

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Interview of Mykola Chaban to a local TV channel

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chaban, Mykola 1958 births Writers from Dnipro 20th-century Ukrainian historians 20th-century Ukrainian journalists Oles Honchar Dnipro National University alumni Living people 21st-century Ukrainian journalists 21st-century Ukrainian historians