Mykola Bazhan

Mykola Bazhan
silver coin with face of Bazhan in the center, name of poet on the edge of the left, years alive on edge of the right
Bazhan in 1928
BornSeptember 26, 1904
Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russian Empire (today Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine)
DiedNovember 23, 1983 (aged 79)
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupationwriter, poet, academician
LanguageUkrainian
NationalitySoviet

Mykola Platonovych Bazhan (Ukrainian: Микола Платонович Бажан; 9 October [O.S. 26 September] 1904 – 23 November 1983) was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure. He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951), Distinguished Figure in Science and Technology of Ukrainian SSR (1966), Distinguished Figure in Arts of Georgian SSR (1964), People's Poet of Uzbek SSR.