Kachura, Yakiv
Kachura, Yakiv [Качура, Яків; Kačura, Jakiv], b 21 October 1897 in Yurkivka, Bratslav county, Podilia gubernia, d October 1943 in Staline (now Donetsk). Writer. His works were first published in 1923 and he became a member of the writers’ groups Pluh, MARS, and the All-Ukrainian Association of Proletarian Writers. He is the author of several collections of short stories dealing with the First World War, the Revolution of 1917, and contemporaneous life, as well as the novels Chad (Fumes, 1929) and Ol'ha (1931) and the Stalinist historical novella Ivan Bohun (1940). A Soviet war correspondent from 1941, Kachura was captured by the Germans in May 1942 and died in a concentration camp in the Donbas. His selected works (in 2 volumes) were published in 1958; a critical biography by Borys Buriak appeared in 1962.
[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]