Yury Smolytsch
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Jurij Kornijowytsch Smolytsch ( Ukrainian Юрій Корнійович Смолич , Russian Юрий Корнеевич Смолич Yuri Kornejewitsch Smolitsch * June 25 jul. / 8. July 1900 greg. In Uman , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 16th August 1976 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian - Soviet writer, journalist, theater critic and editor.
Jurij Smolytsch was born as the younger brother of the church historian Igor Smolitsch in what is now the Ukrainian city of Uman. He is considered to be one of the founders of Soviet-Ukrainian prose. From 1971 to 1973, Yuri Smolytsch, succeeding Oles Honchar , was the chairman of the National Association of Writers of Ukraine . He died in Kiev at the age of 76 and was buried there in the Baikowe Cemetery.
Smolytsch received numerous honors, including twice the Order of Lenin and, above all for his work against the Ukrainian emigrant groups, the title Hero of Socialist Labor .
Web links
- Entry to Smolich, Yury Korneevich in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1979, at The Free Dictionary (English)
- Biography of Yuriy Smolytsch in the Ukrainian Literature Library (Ukrainian)
- Entry on Jurij Smolytsch in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article on Smolych, Yurii in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on November 4, 2016
- ↑ Biography Yuri Smolytsch ( Memento of 4 November 2016 Internet Archive ) on library.ck.ua; accessed on November 4, 2016 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Smolytsch, Jurij |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smolytsch, Jurij Kornijowytsch (full name); Смолич, Юрій Корнійович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian-Soviet writer, journalist, theater critic and editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uman , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1976 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukrainian SSR |