Mykhaylo Semenko

Mykhaylo Vasyliovich Semenko (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Васи́льович Семе́нко) was a Ukrainian poet, and a prominent representative of Ukrainian futurist poetry of the 1920s. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of Executed Renaissance.

Mykhayl Semenko
BornDecember 31, 1892
Kybyntsi, Russian Empire
DiedOctober 23, 1937 (age 44)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
OccupationPoet
LanguageUkrainian
NationalityUkrainian
GenrePoetry

He was a founder of futurist groups Aspanfut, Komunkult, Nova Generatsiya, and Kverofuturism, better known in English as "Panfuturism". He was an editor in couple of almanacs and the journal "Nova generatsiya". As a poet Semenko wrote primarily for urban audiences. Semenko was arrested in 1937 and executed by NKVD during the Great Purge. In the mid-1960s he was rehabilitated.

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