- Mykhailo Yalovy
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Mykhailo Yalovy
Михайло Омелянович ЯловийBorn June 5, 1895
Kostiantynhrad uyezd, Poltava GovernorateDied November 3, 1937 (aged 42)
Svirlag OGPU, Lodeynoye Pole, USSRPen name Yulian Shpol Occupation poet, prosaic, drama writer Nationality Ukrainian Literary movement CPU(b), Hart, VAPLITE etc Notable work(s) Golden fox-kits Mykhailo Yalovy (Ukrainian: Михайло Омелянович Яловий) (born June 5, 1895 in the village of Dar-Nadezhda, Kostiantynhrad uyezd, in the Poltava Governorate (today Kharkiv Oblast) of the Russian Empire - died November 3, 1937 in Svirlag, Leningrad Oblast, Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian communist poet-futurist, prosaic, drama writer.
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Brief biography
Yearly years and the Revolution
Yalovy was born in a family of volost scribe. He had two brothers Kostiantyn and Hryhoriy. His general education he obtained in Myrhorod gymnasium in 1916. After that he enrolled in the Medical Department of the Kiev University of Saint Vladimir. There he completely is dove into a revolutionary activity becoming a member of one of the most influential of that political lifetime party of socialist-revolutionaries (essery or SR).
Since the beginning of the February Revolution he returned to Kostiantynhrad (today Krasnohrad) where he headed a revolutionary committee. Later he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Kostiantynhrad Council of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies. After the left wing of essery split in 1918 as a separate party of Borotbists he became their one of the most distinct members. He took active participation in issuing of newspapers Borotba (Struggle) and Selianska bidnota (Poor peasantry) for the last of which he became a director. About at the same time he also works as a chief editor in the newspaper Peasant and Worker, the instructional-agitation locomotive of the Head of Central Executive Committee of Ukraine Hryhoriy Petrovsky.
He provides active underground work in Odessa and Kherson region. There he was organizing a fight against the German occupational forces and Hetman-followers. In 1919 as part of the Borotbist delegation he visited Halychyna.
Creative work and activism
In 1920 Yalovy enrolled into the CPU(b). For sometime he was located in Moscow as a representative of the Ukrainian government. In 1921 together with Mykahilo Symenko and Vasyl Aleshko created the Strike group of poet-futurists in Kharkiv. Together with Oleksa Slisarenko and Mykola Bazhan Yalovy became a member of Hart in 1925, later the same year with several members of Hart he creates VAPLITE becoming its president.
In 1926 Yalovy published an article Saint-Petersburg's kholuystvo (kholuystvo is a derogatory Russian word for ignorance) in the defense of the national Ukrainian culture that was triggered by another article of the Leningrad magazine Zhyzn isskustva (#14), Self-determination or chauvinism?. On November 20, 1926 he was fired together with Mykola Khvyliovy from the editorial collegiate of Chervony Shliakh by the order of the Politburo of Central Committee Communist Party of Ukraine (bilshovyks). Later him, Dosvitny, and Khvyliovy left VAPLITE in order to save the organization, but at the end it was forces to dissolve on its own.
Arrest
Mykhailo Yalovy was arrested on the night of May 12/13 in 1933 during the search of his apartment by the agents of GPU Ukrainian SSR. On May 31, 1933 he was excluded from the ranks of the CPU(b) under the motivation that he infiltrated its ranks with a goal of creation a counterrevolutionary fascist organization that was aimed to sack the Soviet government. Yalovy was accused in spying activity for a Polish consulate, Shumskizm, and in preparing a crime attempt against the first secretary of CPU(b) Pavel Postyshev (Kharkiv-city and oblast). He has not recognized himself guilty.
Yalovy was sentenced to 10 years in correctional-labor camps (ITL, part of GULAG). At the meeting of the special NKVD troika of Leningrad Oblast his case was reviewed once again and by the decision of October 9, 1937 Yalovy was sentenced to the highest degree of punishment, a death by a firing squad. The execution took place on November 3, 1937 in Svirlag OGPU (Lodeynoye Pole), other data states of Sandarmokh near Medvezhyegorsk. On June 19, 1957 the conviction was canceled for the absence of state of crime by the Military tribunal of Leningrad Military District (LVO).
See also
Works
- Need to be chewed out. — 1920.
- (Collection of poetry) Tops. — Kyiv—Moscow—Berlin: Golfshtrem, 1923.
- (Comedy) Cathy's love, or construction propaganda. — Kharkiv, 1928.
- (Novel) Golden Fox-kits. — Kharkiv: Knyhospilka, 1929. (II ed. — Kharkiv: Knyhospilka, 1930.)
- Selected works / Organization, foreword, footnotes, and commentaries of Oleksandr Ushlakov. — Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2007. (ISBN 966-8499-46-8)
Bibliography
- Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies (10 volumes) / Chief editor Volodymyr Kubiyovych. — Paris, New-York: Molode Zhyttia, 1954—1989.
- Maystrenko, Ivan. History of my generation. Memoirs of a participant of revolutionary activities in Ukraine. — Edmonton, 1985.
- Ushlakov, Oleksandr. Greetings, Yulian Shpol! («Драстуй, Юліане Шпол!») // Yulian Shpol. Selected works. — Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2007.
External links
Categories:- Ukrainian poets
- Ukrainian writers
- People from Kharkiv Oblast
- Futurist writers
- 1895 births
- 1937 deaths
- Ukrainian communists
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