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Ukrainian Poets
The following is a list of Ukrainian-language poets (chronological). 18th century *Hryhori Skovoroda – Kharkiv Oblast 19th century *Taras Shevchenko – Zvenyhorodka Raion, Cherkasy Oblast *Ivan Franko – Yavoriv Raion, Lviv Oblast *Leonid Hlibov – Lubny Raion, Poltava Oblast *Yevhen Hrebinka – Ubizhyshche, (today – Marianivka, Hrebinka Raion, Marianivka), Poltava Governorate *Levko Borovykovsky – Myliushky, Poltava Governorate *Ivan Vahylevych – village of Yasen (today in Kalush Raion), Stanisławów Powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria *Markiyan Shashkevych – Pidlyssia, Złoczów Powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria *Panteleimon Kulish – Voronizh (now in Sumy Oblast) *Yuriy Fedkovych – Putyla (now in Chernivtsi Oblast) *Pavlo Chubynskyi – village Hora, Pereyaslav county, Poltava Governorate *Hryts’ko Kernerenko *Mykola Markevych – Dunaiez (now in Sumy Oblast) *Mykhailo Petrenko 20th century *Emma Andijewska – Donetsk *Yuri Andrukh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hryhori Skovoroda
Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda (; , ; , ; 3 December 1722 – 9 November 1794), was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin who lived and worked in the Russian Empire. He was a poet, a teacher and a composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations and his way of life were universally regarded as Socrates, Socratic, and he was often called a "Socrates". Skovoroda, whose native tongue was vernacular Ukrainian, wrote his texts in a mixture of three languages: Church Slavonic, Ukrainian, and Russian, with some elements from Latin and Greek language , Greek and a large number of Western-Europeanisms. Different views exist about how to characterize the base language upon which he developed his highly individual idiom. One scholar has identified this base language as the variety of Russian spoken by the upper classes in Kharkiv and the surrounding Sloboda Ukraine region; this version of Russian c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalush Raion
Kalush Raion () is a raion (district) of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (province). The city of Kalush is the administrative center of the raion. Population: On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast was reduced to six, and the area of Kalush Raion was significantly expanded. Two abolished raions, Dolyna and Rozhniativ Raions, as well as Bolekhiv Municipality and the city of Kalush, which was previously incorporated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to the raion, were merged into Kalush Raion. The January 2020 estimate of the raion population was The raion was formed on October 28, 1963. In 1972 part of the raion became incorporated into the Kalush municipality. The oldest settlements in the Raion are Stankiv (1158), Zaviy (13th century), Holyn' (1391), and Novytsia (14th century). The leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Stepan Bandera, was born in Staryi Uhryniv in Kalush Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hryts’ko Kernerenko
Hryts’ko Kernerenko (Ukrainian: Грицько Кернеренко, born Grigorii Borisovich Kerner; 1863–1941Zayarnyuk, Andriy and Ostap Sereda''The Intellectual Foundations of Modern Ukraine: The Nineteenth Century'' Taylor & Francis, 2022.) was a Jewish-Ukrainian poet.Petrovsky-Shtern, Yohanan"Ukrainian Literature."''The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe'' He may have been the first poet of Jewish descent to write in Ukrainian, and was the first to write on the topic of Jewish-Ukrainian identity.Shkandrij 71 Biography Kernerenko was born into a wealthy Russian-speaking family in Huliaipole.Shandrij 69 Due to the quota then in place in the Russian Empire limiting restricting the number of Jews able to attend university, Kernerenko was instead sent to study agronomy at a polytechnic college in Munich. He apparently traveled through Europe and visited Austria and Italy in 1883, and upon finishing his studies returned to Huliaipole to become a manager of his own e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavlo Chubynskyi
Pavlo Platonovych Chubynskyi (1839 – January 26, 1884), also anglicized as Paul Chubinsky, was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian poet and ethnographer, best known as the author of the lyrics to the national anthem of Ukraine, set to music by Mykhailo Verbytskyi. Birthplace Chubynskyi was born in the Chubynskyi's estate that was located just outside village Hora, Pereiaslav county, Poltava Governorate. Today the place is known as a separate village Chubynske, Boryspil Raion that is located midway between Kyiv and Boryspil International Airport in the Kyiv Oblast. Career Ukrainian national anthem In 1863 the Lvivan nationalist journal ''Meta'' published "" (), but mistakenly ascribed it to Taras Shevchenko. In the same year it was set to music by the Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galician composer Mykhailo Verbytsky, first for solo and later choral performance. This song was disseminated throughout Ukraine as a rallying point for nationalist sentiments, leading Pavlo Chubynskyi to be seen as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chernivtsi Oblast
Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldova. The region spans . The oblast is the smallest in Ukraine both by area and population. It has a population of and its administrative center is the city of Chernivtsi. In 1408, Chernivtsi was a town in Moldavia and the chief centre of the area known as Bukovina. Chernivtsi later passed to the Turks and then in 1774 to the Habsburg monarchy. After World War I, it was ceded to Romania, and in 1940, the town was acquired by the Ukrainian SSR. The oblast has a large variety of landforms: the Carpathian Mountains and picturesque hills at the foot of the mountains gradually change to a broad partly forested plain situated between the Dniester and Prut rivers. Geography Chernivtsi Oblast covers an area of . It is the smallest oblast in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Putyla
Putyla (; ), formerly Storonets-Putyliv (), is a rural settlement in Vyzhnytsia Raion, Chernivtsi Oblast, western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Putyla settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. At the 2001 census, the town's population was 3,265. Current population: History The town of Putyla was first mentioned in 1501 along with other local settlements, which the Polish Crown gave to Ioan Tăutu for settling the peace between Poland and Principality of Moldavia. In 1817, the local villagers complained to Austrian Emperor Francis II that they had their taxes increased the past 10 years. In 1843, the villagers were informed that they could no longer use and cultivate the nearby forest, after which an uprising occurred, resulting in the imprisonment of 14 local leaders. Until 18 July 2020, Putyla served as an administrative center of Putyla Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuriy Fedkovych
Osyp-Yuriy Adalbertovych Fedkovych (, 8 August 1834, Putyla - 11 January 1888, Chernivtsi) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, folklorist and translator. Biography Fedkovych lived in Chernivtsi, where he was a closed associate of Rudolf Neubauer, the editor of ''Bukowina'', the first German literary supplement in the city, and also the creator of the German language literary circle in Chernivtsi. He edited the first Ukrainian-language newspaper in Bukovina. In 1989 Chernivtsi University The Chernivtsi National University (named after Yuriy Fedkovych, full official title Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, ) is a public university in the city of Chernivtsi in Western Ukraine. One of the leading Ukrainian institutio ... was renamed Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University in his memory. Works * ' The soldier's daughter'. Translated by Roma Franko. In Sonia Morris, ed., ''From days gone by: selected prose fiction'', Toronto: Language Lanterns Publications, 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumy Oblast
Sumy Oblast (), also known as Sumshchyna (), is an oblast (province) in northeast Ukraine. The oblast was created in its modern-day form, from the merging of raions from Kharkiv Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, and Poltava Oblast in 1939 by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. The estimated population is The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Sumy. Other important cities within the oblast include Konotop, Okhtyrka, Romny, and Shostka. The modern region combines territories of the historical Severia (northern part) and Sloboda Ukraine (southern part). On territory of the Sumy Oblast important centers of Ukrainian culture are located, such as the city of Hlukhiv which served as a hetman residence during the Cossack Hetmanate as well as the cities of Okhtyrka and Sumy which were regional centers of the Sloboda Ukraine. The oblast has a heavy mix of agriculture and industry, with over 600 industrial locations. Among the most notable was the So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voronizh
Voronizh (, ; , ) is a rural settlement in Shostka Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. It is located on the banks of the Osota, a left tributary of the Desna, in the drainage basin of the Dnieper. Voronizh belongs to Shostka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: History Until 26 January 2024, Voronizh was designated urban-type settlement. On this day, a new law entered into force which abolished this status, and Voronizh became a rural settlement. Economy Industry A sugar factory in Voronizh was built in the 1860s by Nikolay Tereshchenko. It was the largest industrial enterprise in the settlement until 2004, when it stopped operation. Transportation Tereshchenska railway station is located in Voronizh. It is on the main line connecting Kyiv and Moscow across the Russian border; there is also a side line to Shostka and Novhorod-Siverskyi which starts in Tereshchenska. There is intensive passenger traffic through the station. Until 2007, it was known as Voron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panteleimon Kulish
Panteleimon Oleksandrovych Kulish (; 7 August 1819 – 14 February 1897) was a Ukrainian writer, critic, poet, folklorist, and translator. Life Panteleimon Kulish was born 7 August 1819 in Voronizh (now Sumy Oblast) into an impoverished Cossack gentry family. His mother, Kateryna Ivanivna, spoke exclusively Ukrainian and taught her son numerous folk songs, tales and legends. After completing only five years at the Novhorod-Siverskyi gymnasium, where he got acquainted with classical works of Russian literature and folklore, Kulish enrolled at Kyiv University in 1837 but was not allowed to finish his studies because he was not a noble. Thanks to the protection of Mikhail Yuzefovich and Mykhailo Maksymovych, in 1840 he obtained a teaching position in Lutsk, where he wrote his first historical novel in Russian, ''Mykhailo Charnyshenko, or Little Russia Eighty Years Ago'' (2 vols, 1843). In 1843–45, Kulish taught in Kyiv and studied Ukrainian history and ethnography. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Złoczów Powiat
Zolochiv (, ; ; ; ) is a small city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, and the administrative center of Zolochiv Raion. It hosts the administration of Zolochiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. The city is located east of Lviv along Highway H02 Lviv-Ternopil and the railway line Krasne-Ternopil. It has a population of covering an area of History Medieval settlement, Tatar invasion The site was occupied from AD 1180 under the name Radeche until the end of the 13th century when a wooden fort was constructed. This was burned in the 14th century during the invasion of the Crimean Tatars. Polish town (1442) In 1442, the city was founded as "Złoczów", by John of Sienna, a Polish nobleman of the Dębno family although the first written mention of Zolochiv was in 1423. By 1523, it was already a city of Magdeburg rights. Zolochiv was incorporated as a town on 15 September 1523 by the Polish king Sigismund I the Old. Located in the Ruthenian Voivodship of the Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pidlyssia
Pidlyssia () is a village (''selo'') in Zolochiv Raion, Lviv Oblast, of Western Ukraine. It belongs to Zolochiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Area of the village totals is 0,948 km2 and the population of village is just about 297 persons. Local government was administered by Bilyi Kamin Village Council until 2020. Geography The village is located at a distance of from the highway in European route E40 connecting Lviv with Kyiv. Distance from the regional center Lviv is , from the district center Zolochiv, and from Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, .... History The first written mention of the village dates from the 1550 year. Parish school was opened in the village in 1866. Cultural heritage Architectural monuments of the Zolochi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
