Background
Yuri Sviridovich (Spiridonovich) Kobyletsky (real name Ivan) was born on July 29, 1905 in Zvenyhorodka (now Cherkasy region, Ukraine).
literary critic literary scholar
Yuri Sviridovich (Spiridonovich) Kobyletsky (real name Ivan) was born on July 29, 1905 in Zvenyhorodka (now Cherkasy region, Ukraine).
He graduated from Kyiv University (1934) (now Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv).
Yuri Sviridovich was a komsomol and party worker, chief editor of Goslitizdat of Ukraine. He was the head of the department of Ukrainian literature at Kyiv University (now Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) in 1944-1951. He worked at Kyiv Pedagogical Institute named after A.M. Gorky in 1952-1985.
Yuri Sviridovich is the author of many books on prominent figures of Ukrainian literature (Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, Olha Yulianivna Kobylianska, Ivan Yakovych Franko, Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk, Andrey Samoylovich Malyshko, Natan Samoylovich Rybak and others). The book 'Literaturnye portrety" was published in Russian language (Moscow, 1967).
As a head of the front group of Ukrizdat, he was in the city of Voronezh (autumn 1941 - spring 1942), where books and posters were published. These publications intended primarily for the population of the occupied territories of Ukraine.
