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Pavlo Tychyna

Died in 1967

Pavlo Tychyna was born in 1891 in Pisky, near Chernihiv, the son of a sacristan who kept the village reading school. As a child he sang in the choirs of the Chernihiv monasteries, studied at the town's seminary until 1913 and from 1911 attended Kotsiubynsky's literary Saturdays. Accused of nationalism at the end of the twenties, he submitted to the authorities: Stalin Prize in 1941, Minister of Education from 1943 to 1948, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine from 1953 to 1959. He died in Kyiv on 16 September 1967.

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