Arkadiy Lyubchenko

Arkadiy Lyubchenko was born in March 1899 in Staryi Zhyvotiv, in the Kyiv region, and grew up without a father. After the gymnasium in Skvyra, he studied medicine in Kyiv in 1918 and 1919, performed at the Franko theatre in the early twenties, then was in Kharkiv the secretary of the Vaplite group from 1925 to 1928 and the companion of Khvylovy, with whom he saw the famine villages in the spring of 1933. Under the occupation he kept a diary, left for the west with the German retreat and died after an operation in Bad Kissingen on 25 February 1945.

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• NarrativeВертепArkadiy Lyubchenko · 1927not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain