Mykhaylo Havrylko

Mykhailo Omelianovych Havrylko (; 5 September 1882, Kozatski Khutory near Runivshchyna, now Poltava Oblast – autumn 1920, Poltava) was a Ukrainian sculptor, graphic artist, poet, and soldier. Member of the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine. Participant of the Liberation Movement as a member of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the UPR Army (1915–1919).

Biography In 1904, he graduated from the Myrhorod Art and Industrial School (teacher – Opanas Slastion), in 1905 – from the St. Petersburg School of Technical Drawing, in 1912 – from the Kraków Academy of Arts (studio of Konstanty Laszczka), and trained with the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (Paris).

Creativity Havrylko received an order from the management of the consumer cooperative to make a bust of Taras Shevchenko to be installed in the villages of Poltava Oblast. The main theme is Shevchenkiana. Participated in 4 international competitions for the design of a monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv (1910 – 1st prize).

He published a poetry collection "Na rumovyschah" (1909, Kraków). Some of his works are kept in the Myrhorod Museum of Regional and the Odesa Museum of Regional History.