125 years since the birthday of the student of the university, Ukrainian poet and writer Volodymyr Sosiura: the university celebrates

125 years ago, a student of the university, a brilliant Ukrainian writer, poet-lyricist, author of more than 40 collections of poetry, poems, a Cossack of the Ukrainian People's Republic Army, Volodymyr Mykolayovych Sosyura, was born.

Volodymyr Sosiura was born on January 6, 1898 in Debaltsevo (now Donetsk region). The poet's childhood was spent in the village of Tretya Rota. The autobiographical novel will have the same name, in which he will later talk about his native Donetsk region, a region to which he will refer more than once in his work.

From the age of eleven, the boy started working in the cooper's shop of the soda factory, later he worked as a telephone operator, a manual laborer, and was interrupted by occasional earnings. He received his primary education from his father, a draftsman by profession, who worked as a teacher, scribe, lawyer, and miner.

In 1911, Volodymyr Sosiura entered the ministerial two-class school in the village of Tretya Rota. Volodymyr's poems were published for the first time in a local newspaper in 1917. In the fall of 1918, he participated in the uprising against the hetman as part of the workers' squad, and already in the winter he volunteered for the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic, was captured by the Denikinians, who sentenced Sosiura to be shot, but he managed to survive.

In the 20s, Volodymyr Sosiura belonged to the literary organizations "Plough", "Hart", VAPLITE, VUSPP.

Many of the poet's works are devoted to a patriotic theme: throughout his life, he constantly confesses his love and swears loyalty to his native land. 

The writer's unquenchable love for Ukraine was the cause of many troubles in his life caused by the authorities of that time. In 1951, the Pravda newspaper, in the article "Against ideological distortions in literature", sharply condemned Volodymyr Sosiura's poem "Love Ukraine", published in 1944. The harassment of the writer's creativity begins.

A few years later, Sosiura was "destroyed in silence": they did not print, did not communicate, but he continued to write. Already during the "thaw" he finished the poem "Mazepa", which he had been working on since 1929, wrote an autobiography, and many other works.

In 1958, Volodymyr Sosiura experienced his first heart attack, since then he stopped drinking alcohol, smoking and playing his favorite game of billiards. After the second heart attack, he almost did not leave the room, and later on January 8, 1965, he died.