Oleksandr Oles

Birthday:

12/05/1878

Place of birth:

Bilopillia, Kharkiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine]:

Biography:

Oleksandr Oles (real name Oleksandr Ivanovych Kandyba) (1878–1944) was a prominent Ukrainian writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist, Oleh Olzhych, who perished in the Nazi labor camps in 1944.