Mykhaylo Semenko


Mykhaylo Vasyliovich Semenko was a Ukrainian poet, and a prominent representative of Ukrainian futurist poetry of the 1920s. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of Executed Renaissance.
He was a founder of futurist groups Aspanfut, Komunkult, Nova Generatsiya, and Kverofuturism, better known in English as "Panfuturism". He was an editor in couple of almanacs and the journal "Nova generatsiya". As a poet Semenko wrote primarily for urban audiences. Semenko was arrested in 1937 and executed by NKVD during the Great Purge. In the mid-1960s he was rehabilitated.