Lyubomyr Dmyterko

Dmyterko worked between 1911 and 1985 across writer, screenwriter, playwright, poet and journalist. The registers place that work in sketch story and verse. This article rests on 1 published texts drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Lyubomyr Dmyterko studied at Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University. The recorded working language is Russian and Ukrainian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are sketch story and verse. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, Order of the Red Star and Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

• Name — Lyubomyr Dmyterko • Birth Name — Lyubomyr Dmytrovych Dmyterko • Born — 18 March 1911 • Birthplace — Vynnyky, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary • Died — 2 October 1985 • Place of death — Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union • Resting Place — Baikove Cemetery • Citizenship — Soviet Union • Education — Kamyanets-Podilsky University

Dmyterko was born in a suburb of Lviv (Lemberg), Vynnyky, in 1911, in a family of a village teacher. When he was three years of age, the World War I erupted. Later in his adulthood memoirs he recollected: In 1919, fleeing from the "White Polish armies", the Dmyterko family moved to Kamianets-Podilskyi. He studied in Kamianets-Podilsky Institute of National Education (today Kamyanets-Podilsky Ivan Ohienko National University). In 1930, he studied at screenwriting courses in the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration. His first works "Idu!", "Viter zi Skhodu" (both 1930), "Tovtry" (1931) were criticized for "ideological intolerance". During the German-Soviet War (Eastern Front), Dmyterko worked as a correspondent of the frontline newspaper. After the war, he worked at the Dovzhenko Film Studios. As one of chairmen of the Ukrainian Writer's Union of early 1950s, he participated in Soviet official exposure campaigns. In 1958 and 1962, as part of the Ukrainian SSR delegation, Dmyterko participated in the sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations. For many years, he was a deputy president of the Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1962–1985, Dmyterko was a chief editor of the "Vitchyzna" magazine (official media outlet of the Writer's Union of Ukraine) where he published "Sobor" of Oles Honchar, "Malvy" of Roman Ivanychuk, "Pivdennyi komfront" of Pavlo Zahrebelnyi and others. Dmyterko is an author of over 50 works of poetry and prose: "Rozluka" (1957), "Mist cherez prirvu" (1966), "Ostanni kilometry" and others; stage plays: "Heneral Vatutin" (1948), "Naviky razom" (1950), "Vohnevi rubezhi" (1985) that were staged in many Ukrainian theaters; books, articles and essays about Ukrainian literary Soviet epoch. Selected works of Dmyterko are translated into Russian, Georgian, Lithuanian, German, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech, and most commonly, Bulgarian (over 20 translations), languages. Dmyterko had impression that the Hrushevsky's death in Kislovodsk was carried out deliberately. Mykhailo Hrushevsky was also among those who were incriminated in participation in the Ukrainian Military Organization.

Lyubomyr Dmyterko was born on 18 March 1911 in Vynnyky. Dmyterko held the nationality of Soviet Union. Dmyterko was educated at Kamianets-Podilskyi Ivan Ohiienko National University. Dmyterko worked as writer, screenwriter, playwright and poet, and the authority record catalogues a further 1 occupations under the same name, among them journalist. The fields Dmyterko worked in include sketch story and verse. Dmyterko worked in Russian and Ukrainian. Dmyterko died on 2 October 1985 in Kyiv. Dmyterko is buried at Baikove Cemetery.

• Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class • Order of the Red Star • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (twice) • Order of Friendship of Peoples • Shevchenko National Prize