Background
SEMENKO, Mikhail was born on December 31, 1892 in village Kibintsy, now Poltava Oblast.
SEMENKO, Mikhail was born on December 31, 1892 in village Kibintsy, now Poltava Oblast.
Foreign three years studied at Saint St. Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute.
1913 first work printed. Major Ukraine Futurist. Founded Association of Pan-Futurists, Association of Communist Culture and "New Generation” lit associate.
Tried to introduce “Leninism in culture” but his interpretation of Leninism brought him into conflict with Soviet regime. Criticized for neglecting classical lit and for formalism and forced to recant, e.g., in his verse message “I Begin in the Ranks" (1932). 1935 arrested by State Security organs.