Rudyk, Dmytro

Rudyk, Dmytro [Рудик, Дмитро], b 13 June 1893 in Strilche, Horodenka county, Galicia, d 30 May 1955 in Kyiv. Literary scholar and literary critic. After the February Revolution of 1917 he worked as a teacher in Uman. From 1923 he taught in Kyiv and was principal of the first Ukrainian-language school there. He joined Pluh literary organization and became a founding member of the Zakhidnia Ukraina writers’ group and worked as an editor for its publishing house. His articles on Ukrainian modernist writers and reviews of literary works and translations were published in Zhyttia i revoliutsiia, Literaturna krytyka, Zakhidnia Ukraïna, Zoria (Dnipropetrovsk), and Svit. From 1933 to 1953 Rudyk was imprisoned unjustly in GULAG labor camps in the Soviet Arctic.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]