Savych (Lukianenko) Ivan Savych

He was born on January 19, 1914, in the village of Savynky in the Chernihiv Oblast. He graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Journalism and the Faculty of Philology of the Kyiv University. He worked in the editorial office of the Kyiv Proletarska Pravda Newspaper, taught Ukrainian literature at the Kremenets and Starobilsk Teachers’ Training Institutes, and taught in Donbas.

He published his first collection of poems “Z vichnykh dzherel” (From Eternal Sources, 1957). Since then he published the following books: “Pozyvni z maibutnioho” (Calling from Future, 1959), “Tiazhinnia Zemne” (The Earth’s Attraction, 1964), “Chystota” (The Purity, 1966), “Vichni Dzherela” (The Eternal Sources), “Schedrist” (The Generosity, 1979), “Zirko moia vechorova” (My Evening Star, 1984), “Rubezhi” (The Frontiers, 1989), “Nezboryma pamiat” (The Insuperable Memory, 1980) etc.

In 1989, he published a collection of poems “Kriz poliarni zavoi” (Through the Polar Places), written in the labyrinths of the Gulag about the tragedy of the victims of Stalin’s despotism.

The last collection “Dyvosvit liubovi” (The Wonderland of Love) was published in 2000 and included lyrical lines about love.

Ivan Savych died on November 28, 2000.

Main achievements:

Honorary Citizen of the city Starobilsk

Second Class Order of the Patriotic War

Jubilee medals of the Second World War