Oleksandr Oles
| 5 Dec 1878 | Bilopillia, Kharkiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine]
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Death date: 27 Jul 1944
Biography
Oleksandr Oles (real name Oleksandr Ivanovych Kandyba) (1878–1944) was a prominent Ukrainian writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist, Oleh Olzhych, who perished in the Nazi labor camps in 1944.