Ivan Bahrianyi
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writer and politician. The writer's real name was Ivan Pavlovych Lozoviaha.
Biography
Ivan Bahrianyi was born in the village of Kuzemyn, Okhtyrskyi Raion, Sumy OblastSumy Oblast
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, in eastern Ukraine. His education was not consistent, owing to the difficulty of life during First World War, the revolution and the post-war chaos in education.
Bahrianyi did enter the Kiev Art Institute, but did not graduate. In 1926, he began to publish poetry in newspapers and journals and in 1927, his first collection of poetry appeared. Bahrianyi was a member of the Kiev
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association of young writers, MARS. In 1932, the Ukrainian writer became a victim of the Soviet repressions and served his sentence in the Far East
Far East
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His works include: Zolotyi bumeranh, Heneral, Tuhrolovy, and Sad Hetsymans'kyi among others.
In 1992, Ivan Bahrianyi posthumously received the national Shevchenko Prize .