Tytarenko, Serhii

Tytarenko, Serhii [Титаренко, Сергій], b 19 October 1889 in Ichnia, Borzna county, Chernihiv gubernia, d 30 January 1976 in Buffalo, New York State, USA. Journalist and publisher. In Kyiv he was editorial secretary of the pedagogical periodicals Svitlo (Kyiv) (1910–14) and Vil’na ukraïns’ka shkola (1917–19). In 1912 he cofounded the Krynytsia publishing house, which he helped run until the First World War and after its revival in 1917–20. Under Soviet rule he directed the Kyiv branch of the State Publishing House of Ukraine and the editorial staff of the Knyhospilka publishing co-operative (1924–7) and was a member of the executive of Slovo publishing house (1922–6). Tytarenko wrote several children’s primers and readers. He was arrested in 1929 in connection with the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine (SVU) and exiled by administrative order to Voronezh for three years. There he translated works by Nikolai Gogol and Mykola Kostomarov for the State Publishing Alliance of Ukraine, which were published under the pseudonym P. Vilkhovy. In 1943 he managed to return to Kyiv. A postwar refugee and displaced person in Germany, he emigrated to the United States of America.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]