Turchinskaya, Agata Fedorovna

Born in a poor family. Soleep orphaned. In 1915 she was in Kiev. She was brought up in an orphanage. In 1923 she graduated from the three-year teacher courses to them. Boris Grinchenko in Kiev, then - Kiev Music School, later in 1926 - Kiev Institute of National Education (now - Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University ). She worked as a teacher in an orphanage.

A member of the Kiev group of literary organization " Western Ukraine ".

A. Turchinskaya took an active part in public work. Since 1938 - member of the Writers' Union of Ukraine.

During the Great Patriotic War, she was evacuated (1941–1943), worked in the newspaper “Turkmen spark”, inspector of arts of the Council of People's Commissars of the Turkmen SSR , was deputy chairman of the Russian writers section.

After the liberation of Ukraine from the Nazi occupiers, she returned to Kiev.

She was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

She died on August 22, 1972 in Kiev. Buried at Baikovo Cemetery .

Printed since 1923. In the late 1920s. The first debut collection of poems звSvory. Along with the works, marked by the influence of the poetry of P. Tychyna , the collection included many poems with distinct signs of their own poetic style. Her name became famous in Western Ukraine, in Galicia .

While in Turkmenistan, she wrote poems, essays, short stories in Ukrainian and Russian (the essay "People of Oji Village," the poem "Kurban Durdy", etc.).

The creative pathos of A. Turchinskaya are characterized by social pathos, devotion to favorite themes and images, exciting autobiography, and a desire to diversify artistic techniques (primarily in verses-meditations, lyric-epic poems).

• Collection of stories for children "Naystarshiy" (1928).
• Children's play "Spring" (1929).
• The story "Smok" (1930).
• Collections of poems and poems
  • Speak (1929),
  • The Harvest (1939)
  • “Privit, Galichino!” (1940),
  • "Childhood Poet" (1941),
  • "Tarasov Mountain" (1942),
  • "Marchica" (1945),
  • “Pisnya about friendship” (1946),
• The book for children "Zernyatko" (1947),
• The story "Dawn on Verkhovinі" (1949),
• The novel "A Friend of Myth Ashgabat" (1955, in 1967 - printed in Turkmen);
• Poetic collections and poems
  • "Childhood Poet" (1941),
  • “Dear to forget” (1958),
  • "Tarasov Mountain" (1961),
  • “My earth, my dawn” (1961),
  • “Politya” (1965),
  • Buzkov Zilla (1966);
• Libretto for the opera “Mermaid”, the opera “Milan” (1955) by composer George Mayboroda . He is the author of the one-act play “Taras in Captivity” and the play for children “Spring”.

• Orlik P.I. Turchinska Agata Fedorivna // Українська Radianska Encyclopedia. - 2 nd view. - Vol. 11. - Book 1. - K., 1984. - P. 412.
• Writers of Radyan Ukraine. - K., 1970. - p. 442.

• Turchynska Agata Fedorivna (ukr.)