Ada Chumachenko

Ada Artemyevna Chumachenko (; 9 September 1887 – 5 May 1954) was a Russian poet, playwright and writer.

Life Chumachenko was born in Taganrog in 1887. Her parents Artemy Pavlovich Chumachenko and Ariadna Iasonovna Chumachenko (born Blonskaya) were both Ukrainian and teachers.

She began publishing poetry locally in 1895 at the age of eight She brought on many young writers including Maxim Gorky. After 1926 she wrote for children and her best received work was "A Man from the Moon" in 1939. This was a fictional biography of the scientist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay.

During the war she moved jobs and ended up in 1945 at the children's magazine Murzilka.

Chumachenko died in Moscow in 1954.