Kochish, Nikolai Mikhailovich

Kochish graduated from the first two classes of the gymnasium, but later in 1947 completed his education at a teacher training college in Sombor . He taught at various schools in the territory of the Ruthenians in Vojvodina, including in Kutsur and Russian Krestur. He worked in the editorial office of the children's magazine Pionirsk Zagradka, after which he continued his education, graduating from the Higher Pedagogical School in Novi Sad in 1956 and the philosophical faculty of the university in the same city (1963). Consistently promoting the teaching of the Russian language in schools, in 1965, Kochish headed the Russian- language section of the Vojvodinsky regional publishing house of textbooks, in 1971 he helped found and became the first chairman of the Society of Russian Language and Literature and made a significant contribution to the development of a lecture course on Russian literature at the University of Novosad (1972).

Some critics consider Kochish a representative of "the highest point of Rusyn literature." Since 1948 he has been publishing poetry, and later since 1951, prose in Rusyn periodicals. His first storybook Krocha (1963) presents a scenario in which the world of children draws parallels to the world of adults. The following were two volumes of children's poetry, “Dzelheim Radosz and Chezhkosci” (1972) and “We Are Not a State” (1973). In 1978, a retrospective selection of his works was published, as well as a book entitled The Most Quiet Rusnakova Soul.

Kochish, also known as a linguist, who made a significant contribution to the standardization of the Ruthenian literary language. In 1960, he published a series of textbooks, for the first time since the Second World War , under the name "Matserinska Besheda" (1965-1968). These textbooks withstood several reprints and were published posthumously with the author editing under the title: “Russian language and culture.” He also published the first spelling rules of the Ruthenian language, "The Spelling of the Russian Language" (1971), which received an approving response from both linguists and the general public as a necessary standard. The first part of his “The Tramatic of the Russian Language” was published posthumously (1974). Kochiš is also the first lexicographer of the Rusyns of Vojvodina, the compiler of the Rusyn-Serbian dictionary of historical terminology for schools (1970) and the practical terminological dictionary of 14,000 words (Serbo-Croatian-Ruthenian-Ukrainian) (1972). His articles and essays on language issues were included in the collection “Linguistic Works” (1978). Advocating the use of the Ruthenian language as a literary language, Kochish approvingly approached the borrowing of cognate or similar Ukrainian linguistic and lexical forms. In honor of Kochish’s many-sided achievements, the Ruske Slovo Publishing House established a prize in 1974, which awarded the best literary works dedicated to the Rusyns of Vojvodina.

• “Matserinska beshed. Grammar ”(1965, 1967, 1968),
• “History: the terminology for the main school” (1970),
• "The spelling of the Russian language" (1971),
• “Tame the terminology of Slovenian Serbo-Croatian-Russian-Ukrainian” (1972),
• "The grammar of the Russian language for 1-11 class of the gymnasium" (publ. 1974).

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• Mikola M. Kochish (1928-1973) / Friends for the language, literature and culture. - 2013.
• Days of Mikoli Kochish at Serbia, 2013: Program and Sound.