Background
DOL’D.-MIKHAYLYK, Yuriy was born on March 17, 1903 in village Butenki, now Poltava Oblast.
Ukrainian w'riicr and playwright
DOL’D.-MIKHAYLYK, Yuriy was born on March 17, 1903 in village Butenki, now Poltava Oblast.
Graduate Dnepropetrovsk Institute of Education.
Until 1922 lecturer-librarian, then head, uyezd educational department and director, Lozovaya Children’s Labor Colony. From 1922 journalist in Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson and Vinnitsa. 1925 worked for Dnepropetrovsk periodical Zorya.
From 1929 with Khar’kov newspaper Kommunist. During World War 2 head, Theater Department, Turkm Board of Art Problems. Subsequently head, Literature Department, Shchors Theater.
Communist Party member from 1949.