Background
TYCHINA, Pavlo was born on January 27, 1891 in village Peski, now Chernigov Oblast.
Ukrainian poet and government official
TYCHINA, Pavlo was born on January 27, 1891 in village Peski, now Chernigov Oblast.
1913 graduate Chernigov Theological Seminary. Studied at Kiev Business Institute.
1916-1923 lived in Kiev and toured Ukraine with K. Stetsenko’s choir. 1917-1919 worked for journal “Mystetstvo revolyutsii” and for All-Union State Publ House. 1920 head, Cooperative Art Museum, Dnieper Consumers’ Union, then Kiev Province Consumers’ Union.
1920 also chrincler for the composer Master of Laws Stetsenko’s choir in its tour of Right-Bank Ukraine. 1920-1923 lit director, Shevchenko State Theater, Kiev. 1922 co-founder, Ukraine Music School.
1923-1934 worked for Khar’kov Journal “Chcrvonyy shlyakh”. 1936-1938 and 1941-1943 directed Institute of Literature, Ukraine Academy of Sciences. From 1941 director, Institute of Literature and Language, Ukraine Academy of Sciences, Ufa then Moscow.
1943-1948 Ukraine People's Commissar (then Minister) of Education. From 1949 deputy chairman, Ukraine Peace Committee. 1953-1959 chairman, Ukraine Supreme Soviet.
1956 and 1959 voting deleg at 20th and 21st Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congresses. Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1946, 1950, 1954 and 1958 convocations. Deputy, Ukraine Supreme Soviet of all convocations.
Chairman, Ukraine Supreme Soviet of 1955 and 1959 convocations. Deputy chairman, Soviet of Nationalities, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1954 and 1958 convocations. 1929 member, Soviet Orientalists deleg in Istanbul and Ankara.
1935 attended International Anti-Fascist Congres, Paris. 1945 attended Pan-Slavic Congress, Sofia. 1947 member, Soviet writers’ deleg in Warsaw.
1949 visited England and Scotland for 25th anniversary of British Social for Cultural Relations with the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Member, editorial board, journal “Slavyane” and “Vitchyzna”. Member, Soviet Institute of Literature and council member, Social Sciences Division, Ukraine Academy of Sciences.
Translated works of Pushkin, Krylov, Arm poet Tumanyan and Jewish poets Shvartsman and Hofstcin, et cetera
Member, Communist Party, since 1944.
Member, Ukraine Academy of Sciences from 1929. Correspondent member, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1947. Member, Central Committee, Communist Party Ukraine from 1954.
Communist Party member from 1944.
