Chepiha-Zelenkevych, Yakiv

Chepiha-Zelenkevych, Yakiv [Чепіга-Зеленкевич, Яків; Čepiha-Zelenkevyč, Jakiv], b 12 May 1875 in Marianivka, Kherson gubernia, d 22 August 1938 in Sevvostlag GULAG labor camp. Pedagogue. From 1918 to 1928 Chepiha taught at institutions of higher education in Kyiv; from 1928 he worked at the Scientific Research Institute of Pedagogy of Ukraine in Kharkiv. He wrote studies on pedagogy, especially on child rearing and job training, as well as primary school handbooks and manuals on the Ukrainian language and arithmetic. In 1937 he was arrested during the Yezhov terror and died in a Soviet concentration camp.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]