Vasil Chechvianskii (Hubenko) Mikhailovich

The real name is Gubenko. He was born on February 28 (March 11) 1888 in the Chechva farm. He died on July 15, 1937 in Kyiv. The humorist writer originally from Poltava Region, the older brother of Ostap Vyshny, was a co-editor and secretary of the magazine "Chervony Perets" for a long time. A member of the "Plow" and VUSPP literary organizations, he began publishing in the early 1920s. A representative of the shot revival.

Died during the Ezhov region. Rehabilitated in the 1950s.

He was born in the village of Chechva near the town of Grun, Zinkiv County, Poltava Province. He was the eldest son in a large peasant family with 17 children.

He graduated from a three-year primary school, then a two-grade school in Zinkiv, and later studied at the Kyiv Military Paramedic School, which he graduated in 1906. After finishing school, he worked in military hospitals. A participant in the First World War, then he served in the Red Army, holding high quartermaster positions in the North Caucasus District.

During his service in the army, he began to engage in literary creativity, published several feuilletons in military newspapers. At the beginning of 1924, he was demobilized from the RSCHA and settled in Rostov-on-Don, where he worked in the local press as a columnist. At the end of 1924, he returned to Kharkiv, then the capital of Ukraine, where he devoted himself to journalism and literary activities.

At the beginning of 1925, he became the head of the branch of the newspaper "Izvestia" in Poltava. In 1926, he returned to Kharkiv and worked in the editorial office of the magazine "Red Pepper", where he was later appointed secretary-in-charge. He was a member of VUSPP.

Due to an attack by a mentally ill person, he was left without an eye. On November 2, 1936, Vasyl Chechvyanskyi was arrested on charges of participation in a Ukrainian counter-revolutionary nationalist fascist organization. On July 14, 1937, the visiting session of the Military Tribunal of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to be shot, and on July 15, 1937, the sentence was carried out. His entire family - his wife and sons - also came under repression.

Creative work

Collections of comic drawings by Vasyl Chechvyanskyi:

• "Kings of Nature" (1928)
• "Eh, comrades..." (1928)
• "Incense" (1929)
• "Among others" (1929)
• "Recovery of the apparatus", "Oskudenia"
• "Blood Transfusion" (1929)
• The Factor (1930)
• "I'm not telling you", "Parodies", "Republicans" (1930)
• "Fact" (1932)
• "Unfortunate" (1933)
• "Teacher - a trip!" (1934)

After the rehabilitation, the collections "Selected humor sketches" and "Milk character" (1959) were published.