Yaroslav Halan | |
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| Native name | Ярослав Олександрович Галан |
| Born | 27 July 1902 Dynów, Galicia-Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) |
| Died | 24 October 1949 (aged 47) Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Resting place | Lychakiv Cemetery |
| Pen name | Comrade Yaga, Volodymyr Rosovych, Ihor Semeniuk |
| Occupation | writer, playwright, publicist, politician, propagandist, radio host |
| Language | Ukrainian |
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| Genres | plays, pamphlets, articles |
| Subject | social contradictions |
| Literary movement | socialist realism |
| Years active | 1927–1949 |
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| Spouse | Anna Henyk
(m. 1928; died 1937)Maria Krotkova (m. 1944) |
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Yaroslav Oleksandrovych Halan (Ukrainian: Ярослав Олександрович Галан, party nickname Comrade Yaga; 27 July 1902 – 24 October 1949) was a Soviet Ukrainian anti-fascist writer, playwright, publicist, member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine since 1924, killed by nationalist insurgents in 1949.