Mykhailo Yalovy

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Mykhailo Yalovy
Михайло Омелянович Яловий
USSR
Pen nameYulian Shpol
Occupationpoet, prose writer, playwright
NationalityUkrainian
Literary movementCPU(b), Hart, VAPLITE etc
Notable worksGolden fox-kits

Mykhailo Yalovy (Ukrainian: Михайло Омелянович Яловий) (5 June 1895 – 3 November 1937), also known under the pen name Yulian Shpol, was a Ukrainian communist poet-futurist, prose writer and playwright. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of the Executed Renaissance.

Brief biography

Early years and the Revolution

Yalovy was born in 1895 in the village of

University of Saint Vladimir. There he completely dove into revolutionary activity, becoming a member of the socialist-revolutionaries
("Esery" or "SR"), one of the most influential parties of the time.

After the beginning of the

revolutionary committee. Later he was elected to the Executive Committee
of the Kostiantynhrad Council of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies.

After the left wing of Esery split away in 1918 as a separate party of Borotbists he became their one of the most well-known members. He took an active part in the group's newspapers Borotba (Struggle) and Selianska bidnota (Poor peasantry), serving as director of the latter paper. About the same time he also worked as a chief editor of Peasant and Worker, the newspaper produced by the instructional-agitation train of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee under the leadership of Grigory Petrovsky.

He conducted active underground work in Odessa and Kherson region, where he organized resistance against the German occupational forces and those loyal to the

Halychyna
as part of a Borotbist delegation.

Creative work and activism

In 1920 Yalovy joined the CPU(b). For some time he was located in Moscow as a representative of the Ukrainian government. In 1921, together with Mykahilo Symenko and Vasyl Aleshko, he created the Strike group of poet-futurists in Kharkiv. Together with Oleksa Slisarenko and Mykola Bazhan Yalovy became a member of Hart in 1925, later the same year with several members of Hart he created VAPLITE, becoming its president.

In 1926 Yalovy published an article Saint-Petersburg's kholuystvo (kholuystvo is a derogatory Russian word for

Chervony Shliakh by the order of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (bilshovyks). Later he, Dosvitny, and Khvyliovy left VAPLITE
in order to save the organization, but in the end it was forced to dissolve.

Arrest and imprisonment

Mykhailo Yalovy was arrested on the night of 12–13 May 1933 during the search of his apartment by the agents of the

Ukrainian SSR
.

On 31 May 1933 he was expelled from the CPU(b) on the grounds that he had infiltrated its ranks with the aim of creating a counter-revolutionary fascist organization that had the goal of overthrowing the Soviet government. Yalovy was accused of spying for the Polish consulate, of Shumskism (support for Ukrainian autonomy and Ukrainizaton associated with Alexander Shumsky, and of preparing to assassinate Pavel Postyshev, the first secretary of the CPU(b). He refused to plead guilty to these crimes.

Yalovy was sentenced to ten years in

GULAG
).

Execution, burial and rehabilitation

A few years later, during the

OGPU (Lodeynoye Pole). New data indicate that Yavlovy's final resting place may be among the thousands shot and buried at Sandarmokh near Medvezhyegorsk.[1]

After Stalin's death, Yavlovy and the many thousands of other victims condemned to death by the extrajudicial troikas were rehabilitated. On 19 June 1957, the conviction was annulled by the

Military tribunal of the Leningrad Military District
(LVO) due to the "lack of a crime".

In December 2022 the Fyodor Tolbukhin lane in Kyiv, Ukraine was renamed to Mykhailo Yalovy lane.[2]

See also

  • Chervony Shliakh

Works

  • Need to be chewed out. — 1920.
  • (Collection of poetry) Tops. — Kyiv—Moscow—Berlin: Golfshtrem, 1923.
  • (Comedy) Cathy's love, or construction propaganda. — Kharkiv, 1928.
  • -+** (Novel) Golden Fox-kits. — Kharkiv: Knyhospilka, 1929. (II ed. — Kharkiv: Knyhospilka, 1930.)
  • Selected works / Organization, foreword, footnotes, and commentaries of Oleksandr Ushlakov. — Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2007. (
    ISBN 966-8499-46-8
    )

Bibliography

  • Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies (10 volumes) / Chief editor
    Volodymyr Kubiyovych
    . — Paris, New-York: Molode Zhyttia, 1954–1989.
  • Maystrenko, Ivan. History of my generation. Memoirs of a participant of revolutionary activities in Ukraine. — Edmonton, 1985.
  • Ushlakov, Oleksandr. Greetings, Yulian Shpol! («Драстуй, Юліане Шпол!») // Yulian Shpol. Selected works. — Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2007.

References

  1. ^ Yalovy, Mykhail Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, updated in 2012
  2. Ukrayinska Pravda
    (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 8 December 2022.

External links

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