Background
Olga Frantsevna Kholoshenko (nee Semashko) was born on the 15th of July, 1923 in the village of Burlyaevka, Novokhopersky district, Voronezh region, Russian Federation in a peasant family.
Voronezh State Pedagogical University
H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University
literary critic translator poetess prose writer
Olga Frantsevna Kholoshenko (nee Semashko) was born on the 15th of July, 1923 in the village of Burlyaevka, Novokhopersky district, Voronezh region, Russian Federation in a peasant family.
Olga Frantsevna graduated from the seven-year plan in the village of Polovtsevo in Novokhopersky district. In 1940 she graduated from the Novokhopersky Pedagogical College. In 1941 she finished her 1st year at the faculty of Russian language and literature of the Voronezh State Pedagogical Institute (now Voronezh State Pedagogical University). Since 1943 she lived in Kharkov, where she graduated from the Kharkov State Pedagogical Institute (now H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University) in 1946.
Olga Frantsevna worked as a teacher in an orphanage in Buturlinovka, Voronezh region, and as a teacher in the village of Filippenkovo, Buturlinovsky district. She also worked as a teacher in Voroshilovgrad and Krasnodon and as an editor of a television studio in Voroshilovgrad. For a long time she lived in the city of Lugansk, Ukraine. Author of more than 15 books of prose and poetry published in Ukraine.