Minko, Nikolai Grigorievich

Born in 1902 in the village of Minkovka in the modern Valkovsky district of the Kharkov region of Ukraine. Father is a railway employee. From 1918 to 1921 he studied at the Ukrainian gymnasium in Yekaterinoslav , the teachers were Vasily Bednov , Ilko Voronka, professor Petr Efremov.

In 1919 he joined the rebel detachment led by Tryphon Gladchenk , stayed there until December 1919, and fought against Denikin’s troops. In 1920 he joined the Ukrainian Youth Organization “Youth Union”, entered the Institute of Journalism.

During 1921-1922 he worked as a teacher in the Vinnitsa region . In 1923 he volunteered for the Red Army . A little later he returned to Dnepropetrovsk , settled in the suburbs of Manuylovka.

He began to write from his school years, in 1925 he wrote the story "Roundabout ways" ( Ukrainian. "Manivtsi" ), which after 2 years was published in the magazine "Red Way". During the 1920s and 1930s, he wrote several dozens of stories, in 1931, the novel “The Village in the Dust” ( Ukrainian “The Hangman by the Saw” ), in which he showed the life of young men and women of Donbass . This novel was removed as "harmful" and "slanderous."

He was a member of the All-Ukrainian Union of Proletarian Writers , worked as a literary consultant. He was a member of the editorial board, was the executive secretary of the editorial office of the Dnepropetrovsk magazine "Dawn" (later - "Storm").

October 25, 1937 arrested. He was tortured for a month and a half, demanded that he be a member of the Ukrainian nationalist terrorist organization that he was recruiting rebel terrorist personnel. December 15, 1937 shot. Without a father, son Roman was left.

In 1962 he was rehabilitated posthumously.

• Minko Mikola Grigorovich