Tarasenko, Nikolai Fedorovich

Nikolai Tarasenko was born into a working class family. In 1937 he graduated from the medical school in Alushta and entered the Crimean Pedagogical Institute. In 1940 he moved to the naval school in Sevastopol .

He participated in the Great Patriotic War . He was in the army until 1946. Tarasenko was awarded military medals.

Since 1946, he worked as an artist in various military units and institutions, in a newspaper, in a publishing house.

He began to write and print poetry , studying at a pedagogical institute. During the war years it was published in the front-line press.

The first poetry collection was published in 1958.

The collection “Beyond the Parthenon” (1992) presents the prose fantastic works of the author.

Selected Editions

• Collections of poems:
  • “Calling” (1958),
  • “Heart and memory” (1960),
  • “Speed” (1964),
  • The Blue Sun (1965),
  • The Blue Sea (1967),
  • The Glow (1969),
  • Chiaroscuro (1973),
  • The Scythian Echo (1974),
  • Heartbeat (1975),
  • The Solstice (1977),
  • “Once You Need to Fall in Love” (1979).
• Poems:
  • "With the certificate of maturity" (1959).
• Novels:
  • “What is happiness in?” (1964).
• Tales and Stories:
  • Prokamia (1969).

• Writers of Soviet Ukraine: Bibliographic Reference / Compiled by Oleg Kilimnik, Alexander Petrovsky. - K .: Soviet writer, 1970. - C 421-422.
• Writers of Soviet Ukraine: Bibliographic Reference / Compiled by A. V. Kilimnik, A. I. Petrovsky. - K .: Soviet writer, 1976. - С 338.
• Writers of Soviet Ukraine: Bibliographic Reference / Compiled by V.K. Koval, V.P. Pavlovskaya. - K .: Soviet writer, 1981. - C 263.
• Writers of Ukraine: Directory. - Dnepropetrovsk, 1996. - C 295.
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