Valerian Pidmohylny

Valerian Pidmohylny was born on 2 February 1901 in Chapli, near Katerynoslav. A pupil at the Katerynoslav Realschule, he began studying law and mathematics without finishing either, then taught. He translated Voltaire, Diderot, Balzac, Anatole France, Maupassant and Flaubert into Ukrainian, and was one of the founders of the Lanka group. Arrested on 8 December 1934, he was sentenced to ten years in a camp on the Solovki Islands and was shot at Sandarmokh, in Karelia, on 3 November 1937, together with more than a thousand other prisoners.

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