Hryhorii Kosynka

Hryhorii Mykhailovych Kosynka (; ; 29 November 1899 – 15 December 1934) was a Ukrainian and Soviet writer and translator. Executed by the Soviet authorities, Kosynka is considered part of the Executed Renaissance.

Biography Hryhorii Strelets was born in 1899 in the selo of Shcherbanivka, Kiev uezd (Present-day, Obukhiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast) to a peasant family. He completed a two-year school, and moved to Kiev in 1914. There, taking various jobs to get subsistence, he graduated from a six-year school. Eventually, Strelets started writing short prose. He first used the pseudonym Hryhorii Kosynka in 1919.

4 November 1934 Kosynka was arrested and charged with counterrevolutionary activity. He was sentenced to death penalty and executed together with a group of Ukrainian writers which included . In 1957, he was posthumously rehabilitated.

Personal life In 1924, Kosynka married (née Moroz).

Books Na Zolotykh Bogiv (На Золотих Богів, 1922) Za vorotmi (За воротьми, 1925) V zhytakh (В житах,1926) Polityka (Політика, 1927) Vybrani opovdannia (Вибрані оповідання, 1928) Tsyrkul (Циркуль, 1930) Sertse (Серце, 1933).