Oksana Ivanenko

She was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, three Orders of the Badge of Honor, and medals.

Oksana Ivanenko studied at National University of Kharkiv. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are short novel. Employment is recorded with National University of Kharkiv. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Badge of Honour, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" and Medal "In Commemoration of the 1500th Anniversary of Kyiv".

• Name — Oksana Ivanenko Оксана Іваненко • Born — March 31, 1906 • Birthplace — Poltava, Russian Empire • Died — 16 December 1997 • Place of death — Kyiv, Ukraine • Resting Place — Baikove Cemetery, Kyiv • Relatives — Dmytro Ivanenko (brother) • Awards — * Shevchenko National Prize • Order of Friendship of Peoples

Oksana Ivanenko was born in Poltava, March 31, 1906. She was the daughter of journalist and writer Dmytro Ivanenko, and teacher Lydia Ivanenko. Her brother was theoretical physicist, Dmytro Ivanenko. She was the mother of children's writer, Valeria Ivanenko. Ivanenko studied at the gymnasium, and then at the workers' school. In 1922, she entered the Poltava Institute of Public Education. Since 1925, her literary activity included the publication of a large number of books for children and youth. In 1926, she graduated from the Faculty of Social Education of the Kharkiv Institute of Public Education, and in 1931, she was an aspirant at the graduate school, Ukrainian Research Institute of Pedagogy, where she headed the section of children's literature in the Kyiv branch of this institute. She was an educator at the Gorky Children's Colony under Anton Makarenko. From 1932 to 1939, she worked for the Young Bolshevik publishing house, and from 1947 to 1951, for the «Барвінок (Periwinkle) magazine. From 1939 to 1957, she lived in Kyiv at the Roliti Writers' House. Her works were published in a five-volume "Works" (vols. 1-5, 1984-1994). Ivanenko died in Kyiv on December 17, 1997. She was buried in Baikove Cemetery.

• "Printer of Unseen Books" (1947, about Ivan Fedorovich) • "Native Children" (1951) • "Bogdan Khmelnytsky" (1954) • "The Great Noise" (1967)

• Taras Ways (1961, the first two parts were published in 1939; about Taras Shevchenko) • Maria (1973, 1977, 1986, 1988; about Mark Vovchko)

• Mountain Flower (1937)

• Always in Life (1985)

• Turgenev by André Maurois - from French (1977) • Malachite box by Pavel Bazhov - from Russian (1979) • The Blind Musician, Children of the Dungeon by Vladimir Korolenko - from Russian • Tales of Hans Christian Andersen - from Danish • Tales of the Brothers Grimm - from German