Skuba, Mykola

Skuba, Mykola [Скуба, Микола], b 6 December 1907 in Horbove, Novhorod-Siverskyi county, Chernihiv gubernia, d 24 October 1937 in Kyiv. A member of the writers’ groups Molodniak and Nova Generatsiia, he began publishing in the Kharkiv literary journals in 1927 and wrote the poetry collections Perehony (Races, 1930), Demonstratsiia (The Demonstration, 1931), Pisni (Songs, 1934), and Novi pisni (New Songs, 1935). He was arrested during the Stalinist terror in 1937, and executed by the NKVD. He was posthumously ‘rehabilitated,’ and a book of his poems was published in Kyiv in 1965.

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