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Oleksandr Korniychuk was born on 25 May, 1905 in Khrystynivka, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire, is a Soviet Ukrainian playwright and public servant. Discover Oleksandr Korniychuk's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Occupation playwright Soviet Party and State official
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 25 May, 1905
Birthday 25 May
Birthplace Khrystynivka, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Date of death 14 May, 1972
Died Place Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
Nationality Russia

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1920

In the late 1920s - early 1930s Korniychuk was an active propagator of internationalism, strictly opposing the local National Communist movement in the Ukrainian literature, led by Mykola Khvylovy.

1924

In 1924 Korniychuk enrolled into the Kyiv University (then known as the Kiev Institute of People's Education).

1929

After the graduation in 1929 he went to work in the Odessa and Kiev film studios, mainly as a script-writer.

His debut play On the Edge (1929) examined the role of a man of arts in the new Socialist society.

1933

His plays include Zahybel eskadry (The Death of the Squadron) (1933), Platon Krechet (1934), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1938), his pro-collectivization comedy In the Steppes of Ukraine (1940), and The Front (1942).

In 1933 came out the first significant play by Korniychuk, Death of the Squadron, endorsing the heroic tale of a Bolshevik Black Sea Fleet unit who chose to sink their ships so as not to be taken by the Germans (later revealed to be nothing more than a romantic revolutionary myth).

The play impressed Pavel Postyshev, who became the 'local prodigy''s mentor.

1934

Platon Krechet followed in 1934, its central character representing the 'new Soviet intelligentsia', driven by "humanism and justice-seeking".

In 1934, at the First Congress of the Soviet Union of Writers Korniychuk was elected a member of its chairmanship board.

The same year he became the leader of the Ukrainian SSR Union of Writers (1934-1941, 1946-1953).

1937

The 1937 play Pravda is credited for being the first one to introduce the character of Lenin to the Soviet theatre stage.

1938

Both Nikita Khrushchev and Lazar Kaganovich recommended the young author to Stalin and in 1938 the Soviet leader met the playwright at the Kremlin.

Soon Korniychuk's plays were translated into most of the Soviet republics' languages and started to be produced by theatres all over the country.

1939

In 1939 came out what in retrospect is regarded by Russian critics as Korniychuk's strongest work, the 5-act drama Bogdan Khmelnitsky, telling the story of the 17th-century national movement in the Ukraine which resulted in the country's unification with Russia.

1940

In the late 1940s

Korniychuk joined the higher ranks of the Ukrainian and Soviet political nomenclature.

1941

Korniychuk was a five-time Stalin Prize laureate (1941, 1942, 1943, 1949, 1951) and is regarded as a major proponent of Socialist Realism in Soviet drama.

His 1941 pro-collectivisation farcical comedy In the Steppes of Ukraine became popular with both the general public and Stalin himself, who in a personal letter informed the author: "Comrade Korneychuk. Just read your play In the Steppes of Ukraine. Laughed heartily. I.Stalin".

As World War II broke out in 1941, Korniychuk went to the frontline, first as a war correspondent, then a politruk.

1942

His 1942 play Frontline, criticizing the 'old style' army generals caused outrage among the latter but was supported by Stalin ("Conduct the war in better ways and there won't be such plays," he reportedly told some of the disgruntled senior rank military men).

For it the author received his third Stalin Prize, promptly donating the money to the needs of national defense.

1943

He served as Soviet Foreign Minister’s first deputy from 1943–1945.

On 19 February 1943 the Ukrainian government newspaper Radyans'ka Ukraina in (briefly) liberated Kharkov published an article by Korniychuk making it clear Stalin had no intention of giving up most of the territory gained by the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact after the war: it was promptly reprinted in Russian by Pravda the following day.

In 1943-1945 he was the first deputy of the Foreign Minister of the USSR.

1944

In 1944 Korniychuk became the first head (People's Comissar) of the Ukrainian SSR's newly formed Foreign Ministry (Narodny Comissariat, as it was then known).

1946

Korniychuk continued in the same vein with Please Come to Zvonkovoye (1946), The Kalinov Grove (1950) and Over Dnieper (1960).

1949

He was a member of the Communist Party’s Central committees (USSR - 1949-1972, UkrSSR - 1952-1972), a Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union deputy (1937-1972), the first deputy of the UkrSSR Prime Minister (1953-1954), the Chairman of the Ukrainian parliament (in 1947-1953, 1959-1972).

Korniychuk received his share of ideological chastising too.

1951

In 1951 the libretto for Konstantyn Dankevych's opera Bogdan Khmelnitsky he'd written with his wife Wanda Wasilewska met with harsh disapproval from Stalin, who demanded for a lot more of the Ukrainian people's fight against the "Polish oppression" to be shown.

1952

Korniychuk was the member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party (1952–1972) and the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1947–1953, 1959–1972).

Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk was born in Khrystynivka, Kiev Governorate, into a family of a railroad workers.

At the age of 15 he started working at a railroad carriage repair works.

1953

The pair added several scenes, making a point to emphasize the "historical roots of the Russian-Ukrainian friendship," and the opera was premiered in 1953.

1954

In 1954 Korniychuk's play Wings, satirizing the style of local party officials' leadership, outraged some members of the USSR CP Central Committee.

Khrushchev had to intervene, allegedly saying: "The Tsar hadn't banned Gogol's Revizor, how can we then ban Korneychuk's Wings?"

1960

Korniychuk's works of the 1960s showed less ideological fervour and more psychological depth, dealing with the Soviet people's moral dilemmas in the post-War Soviet Russia.

1972

Oleksandr Yevdokymovych Korniychuk (Алекса́ндр Евдоки́мович Корнейчу́к, Олександр Євдокимович Корнійчук, 25 May[12 o.s.], 1905 – 14 May 1972) was a Ukrainian playwright, literary critic and state official.

Olexandr Korniychuk died on 14 May 1972 in Kiev.

He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery.

1976

There is a street in Moscow named after Korniychuk (1976).