Yurii Smolych

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Yuriy Korniyovych Smolych (Ukrainian: Юрій Корнійович Смолич), born Heorhiy Korneliyovych Smolych (Ukrainian: Георгій Корнелійович Смолич, 8 July (O.S. 25 June) 1900 - 16 August 1976) was a Ukrainian Soviet writer and public activist known as a pioneer of Ukrainian science fiction.

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Biography Smolych's father was a nobleman of Litvin origin and stemmed from the outskirts of Kovno (now Kaunas, Lithuania). After finishing Moscow University, he made a career as a mathematics and physics teacher and eventually settled in Ukraine. The future writer's mother, Olena Adamivna Stashynska, gave birth to three children, with Yura, as he was known in the family, being the youngest. Born in Uman, the boy attended gymnasiums in Kamianets-Podilskyi and Zhmerynka. Yuriy's childhood hobby was football, and he spent 10 years playing in a school team, despite being short-sighted. At the age of 18 he moved to Kyiv and entered the local Commercial institute. It was during his student time in Kyiv that Smolych learnt the Ukrainian language. During the Ukrainian War of Independence Smolych volunteered to the front and served as a frontline medic. After the end of the war he found employment as an actor, and in 1922 started working at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater in Kyiv. In 1923 Smolych moved to Kharkiv, where he was appointed a theatre inspector. It was in Kharkiv that he started his career as a writer, joining literary societies Hart and VAPLITE. His first collection of stories…Citește mai mult

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Personal life During his time as actor at the Ivan Franko Theatre in the early 1920s Smolych married a fellow actress Ada Skuratova, who was six years older. After some time they divorced, but continued to live together. Around 1940 Smolych had an affair with Ukrainian writer Iryna Vilde. After Ada's death in 1953 he married for a second time with actress Olena Belza, who herself had had an affair with writer Leonid Pervomayskiy. Neither of Smolych's wives knew about his co-operation with Soviet security services.