Mykola Chaban

Mykola Chaban is a Soviet and Ukrainian journalist, a Ukrainian prose writer, specialist in regional studies of Dnipropetrovsk region. He is a Merited Journalist of Ukraine.

Mykola Chaban was born in Dnipropetrovsk on 5 March 1958. He graduated from the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology at the Dnipropetrovsk State University (specialization - "Ukrainian language and literature"). Since then Chaban worked in newspapers of Dniprodzerzhynsk and Dnipropetrovsk. Currently he works at a Dnipropetrovsk regional newspaper "Zoria" as an editor on cultural issues.

Membership National Writers Union of Ukraine All-Ukrainian Union of regional researchers International Association of Belarusian Studies

Awards Valerian Pidmohylny National Writers Union of Ukraine Award (2004) Khoroshun Award (1993) Dmytro Yavornytsky honorary diploma (1994) for the book "Sicheslav in heart" Person of the Year (Dniprodzerzhynsk 1995) as journalist Honors of Mayor of Dniprodzerzhynsk (2004) for the book "Journey through old Kamianske" Laureate of year by the periodical "Courier of Kryvbas" (1994, 1995)