Voronko, Platon Nikitovich

P. N. Voronko was born on November 18 ( December 1 ), 1913, in the village of Chernetchina (now the Akhtyrsky District of the Sumy Region of Ukraine ). His father was a blacksmith, his grandfather was a kobza. From the age of 10, the boy was brought up in the Akhtyrsky Detgorodok, where he graduated from the seven-year school. In 1932 he graduated from the autotechnic and in the spring of the same year, on a voucher of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, he left for Tajikistan for Vakhsh construction . There he began to write his first poems. In 1935-1937 he served in the Red Army . In 1938-1941 he studied at the M. Gorky Moscow Literary Institute . Volunteer went to the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 . He was a fighter of the ski battalion, commanded a group operating in the enemy rear. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the fighter battalion, then in May 1943, in the partisan unit of S. A. Kovpak . He commanded a group of miners-bombers, then Olevskim partisan detachment. Participated in the Carpathian raid. In the winter of 1944 he was seriously injured; on a sled across the front line he was taken to Kiev . In 1945–1946, he worked in the editorial board of the Dnipro magazine. He participated in the World Conference of Democratic Youth in London . In 1947-1948 he was the executive secretary of the commission on work with young authors of the USSR Writers' Union . The poet was also elected a member of the board and presidium of the JV USSR. In 1950, P. N. Voronko was elected a deputy of the Kiev City Council of Workers' Deputies and a member of the board and presidium of the Joint Venture Council of the Ukrainian SSR. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR 10-11 convocations.

P. N. Voronko died on August 10, 1988 . He was buried in Kiev at the Baikov Cemetery .

In 1946, the story “Partisan General Rudnev”, “My World”, “Good Morning” (1950), “Glorious World” (1950), “Dear Friends” (1959), “In the Name of Your Will” (1974) was published in Kiev ), “Bystrina” (1983) and others. Voronko’s poems are devoted to partisans, youth, the struggle for peace, the friendship of nations, and socialist construction. They are characterized by life-affirming intonation, a bright national flavor. Many of them became mass songs (“Komsomol members, go ahead!”, “Black horse”, etc.). The poet also wrote poems for children. A large place in the poet's work is occupied by poems for children: “Our happiness”, “To Stalin”, “Four winds”, “The blooming land”, “Your book”, etc.

• Stalin Prize of the third degree (1951) - for collections of poems "Good Morning" and "Glorious Peace"
• 2 orders of Lenin (12/10/1973; 11/16/1984)
• Order of the Red Banner
• Order of the Patriotic War, I degree (11.03.1985)
• Order of the Patriotic War II degree
• 3 Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (11/24/1960; 11/30/1963; 10/28/1967)
• Medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" I degree
• Medal "For the Defense of Moscow"
• other medals
• USSR State Prize named after T. G. Shevchenko (1972) - for the book "Flood"
• Lenin Komsomol Prize of Ukraine named after N. Ostrovsky (1962) - for the collection of poems "Dear Friends" (1959)
• Prize named after Lesya Ukrainka (1976) - for collections of poems “To every seven”, “Chitanochka”, “Snow star is burning”, “Crane flying around”