Oleksandr Boychenko (writer, 1903)

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Plaque on his home in Kiev
Grave of Oleksandr Boychenko in the Baikowe Cemetery

Oleksandr Maksymowytsch Boychenko ( Ukrainian Олександр Максимович Бойченко ; born November 9, jul. / 22. November  1903 greg. In Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † the thirtieth May 1950 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian - Soviet writer and politician .

Life

Oleksandr Boychenko was born in 1903 into a family of railway workers. In 1923 he became a party member of the CPSU and from May 1932 he was General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Ukraine.

From 1933 onwards, ankylosis , which manifests itself in an ossification of his joints, forced him to go to bed and he became a writer. In the spring of 1941 he finished his first book "Jugend". He wrote in Russian and Ukrainian and was a member of the Union of Writers of the Ukrainian SSR . The trilogy “Youth” was one of the most famous stories of its time and was published in 1955 in German translation.

He died in Kiev at the age of 46 and was buried in the Baikowe cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DNB 104893060
  2. ↑ Short biography of Oleksandr Bojtschenko on the Baikowe Cemetery website; accessed on December 10, 2016 (Russian)
  3. ↑ Oleksandr Boychenko on gazeta.dt.ua ; accessed on December 10, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b c Profile in the Handbook of the History of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991 ; accessed on December 10, 2016 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Boychenko, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boychenko, Oleksandr Maksymowytsch (full name); Бойченко, Олександр Максимович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-Soviet writer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1950
Place of death Kiev , Ukrainian SSR