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Hryhoriy Epik

Died in 1937

Hryhoriy Epik was born on 17 January 1901 in Kamianka, near Katerynoslav, into a working-class family. After the village school, he entered in 1916 as a clerk in the railway workshops, from which he was expelled for taking part in the uprising against the hetman. A member of the Bolshevik party from 1920, he headed the Chervonyi Shliakh publishing house in Kharkiv and belonged to Pluh, then to Vaplite. Arrested on 5 December 1934, he received ten years in a camp on the Solovki Islands and was shot at Sandarmokh, in Karelia, on 3 November 1937.

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