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
Born	December 31, 1892 Kybyntsi, Russian Empire
Died	October 23, 1937 (age 44) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation	Poet
Language	Ukrainian
Nationality	Ukrainian
Genre	Poetry

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 in Solovki prison camp during the Great Purge. In the 1957 he was rehabilitated.

Sources

• Юрій Лавріненко. Розстріляне відродження: Антологія 1917–1933. — Київ: Смолоскип, 2004. (in Ukrainian)
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Semenko, Mykhailo