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Valerian Pidmohylny

1901 - 1937

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Valerian Petrovych Pidmohylny (Ukrainian: Валер'ян Петрович Підмогильний; 2 February 1901 - 3 November 1937) was a Ukrainian modernist, most famous for his novel The City (Ukrainian: Місто, romanized: Misto). Like a number of Ukrainian writers, he flourished in the 1920s Ukraine, but in the 1930s, he was constrained and eventually arrested by the NKVD on fabricated charges of terrorism. He was executed in Sandarmokh in 1937, during the Great Purge. He is one of the leading figures of the Executed Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Valerian Pidmohylny is the 5,175th most popular writer (down from 4,247th in 2019), the 797th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 656th in 2019) and the 116th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Valerian Pidmohylny ranks 5,175 out of 7,302. Before him are Kjell Westö, Bob Shaw, Louis L'Amour, Mats Wahl, Wilhelm Geiger, and Albert Londres. After him are Barbara Ehrenreich, Willem Bilderdijk, Tomás António Gonzaga, Miho Mosulishvili, Henri Bosco, and Jakob van Hoddis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Valerian Pidmohylny ranks 268. Before him are Hermann Josef Abs, Narve Bonna, Aleksandr Andronov, Sam Spiegel, Ernesto Chaparro, and Frank Churchill. After him are Jean Prévost, Oleksiy Fedorov, Bebe Daniels, Paolo Mazza, Anna Kavan, and Reinhold Mack. Among people deceased in 1937, Valerian Pidmohylny ranks 158. Before him are Marguerite Audoux, Noel Rosa, Nikolai Klyuev, Nygmet Nurmakov, Mykhaylo Semenko, and Yordan Yovkov. After him are Charles Homer Haskins, Béla von Kehrling, Juan Artola, Axel Bakunts, Yan Gamarnik, and Antônio Parreiras.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Valerian Pidmohylny ranks 797 out of 1,365. Before him are Wiesław Maniak (1938), Sergei Sviatchenko (1952), Yurii Andrukhovych (1960), Izyaslav of Polotsk (980), Maryna Viazovska (1984), and Andriy Voronin (1979). After him are Maurice Goldhaber (1911), Roman Viktyuk (1936), Nikolay Davydenko (1981), Oleksandr Shovkovskiy (1975), Semyon Ignatyev (1904), and Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Valerian Pidmohylny ranks 116. Before him are Aleksei Kruchyonykh (1886), Eduard Bagritsky (1895), Yuriy Fedkovych (1834), Vasily Yan (1874), Mykhaylo Semenko (1892), and Yurii Andrukhovych (1960). After him are Henry Roth (1906), Mark Aldanov (1886), Ivan Kavaleridze (1887), Ariel Durant (1898), Iryna Vilde (1907), and Zośka Vieras (1892).

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