Mykhailo Yalovy Михайло Омелянович Яловий |
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Born |
Kostiantynhrad uyezd, Poltava Governorate |
June 5, 1895
Died | November 3, 1937 Svirlag OGPU, Lodeynoye Pole, USSR |
(aged 42)
Pen name | Yulian Shpol |
Occupation | poet, prosaic, drama writer |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Literary movement | CPU(b), Hart, VAPLITE etc |
Notable works | Golden fox-kits |
Mykhailo Yalovy (Ukrainian: Михайло Омелянович Яловий) (June 5, 1895 - November 3, 1937) was a Ukrainian communist poet-futurist, prosaic, drama writer. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of Executed Renaissance.
Yalovy was born in 1895 in the village of Dar-Nadezhda, Kostiantynhrad uyezd, in the Poltava Governorate (today Kharkiv Oblast), into the family of a 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.