Oleksandr Korniychuk
| Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk | |
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| Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament | |
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In office 1947–1953 |
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| Preceded by | vacant (previously by Mykhailo Burmystenko) |
| Succeeded by | Pavlo Tychyna |
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In office 1959–1972 |
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| Preceded by | Pavlo Tychyna |
| Succeeded by | Mykhailo Bilyi |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR | |
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In office 1944–1944 |
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| Premier | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Preceded by | vacant (previously by Christian Rakovsky) |
| Succeeded by | Dmytro Manuilsky |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 25, 1905 Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire/Ukraine |
| Died | May 14, 1972 (aged 66) Kiev, Ukraine |
| Occupation | playwright Soviet Party and State official |
| Awards |
Stalin Prize (1941, 1942, 1943, 1949, 1951) |
Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk (Russian: Алекса́ндр Евдоки́мович Корнейчу́к, Ukrainian: Олександр Євдокимович Корнійчук, May 25 [12 o.s.], 1905 - May 14, 1972) was a Soviet Ukrainian playwright, literary critic and state official (a Soviet Foreign Minister’s first deputy in 1943-1945).
His most notable works were plays such as Zahybel eskadry (The Death of the Squadron) (1933),Platon Krechet (1934), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1938), his pro-collectivization comedy In the Steppes of Ukraine (1940), and The Front (1942). Korniychuk was a five-time Stalin Prize laureate (1941, 1942, 1943, 1949, 1951) and is regarded as a major proponent of Socialist Realism in Soviet drama.
Korniychuk was the member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (1952-1972) and the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1947-1953, 1959-1972).
Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk was born in the Khristinovka village of the Kiev Governorate, into a family of a railroad worker. At the age of 15 he started working at a railroad carriage repair works. In 1924 Korniychuk enrolled into the Kiev University (then known as the Kiev Institute of People's Education). After the graduation in 1929 he went to work in the Odessa and Kiev film studios, mainly as a script-writer. His debut play On the Edge (1929) examined the role of a man of arts in the new Socialist society. In the late 1920s - early 1930s Korniychuk was an active propagator of internationalism, strictly opposing the local National Communist movement in the Ukrainian literature, led by Mykola Khvylovy.
In 1933 came out the first significant play by Korniychuk, Death of the Squadron, endorsing the heroic tale of a Bolshevik Black Sea Fleet unit who chose to sink their ships so as not to be taken by the Germans (later revealed to be nothing more than a romantic revolutionary myth). The play impressed Pavel Postyshev, who became the 'local prodigy''s mentor. Platon Krechet followed in 1934, its central character representing the 'new Soviet intelligentsia', driven by "humanism and justice-seeking". The 1937 play Pravda is credited for being the first one to introduce the character of Lenin to the Soviet theatre stage.
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