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HRYHORIY CHUPRYNKA (1879–1921) — Ukrainian avant-garde poet, cultural, military and public and political figure. Active participant in the struggle for the independence of Ukraine. Born on November 27, 1879 in the town of Gogoliv (now Kyiv region) in a family descended from an ancient Cossack family. He studied at the Kyiv and Lubny gymnasiums. He took part in the revolutionary events of 1905, for which he was imprisoned. In literature, he gravitated towards modernism, avant-gardism and symbolism, collaborated with the magazine "Ukrainian House". During 1910–1912 he published a number of poetry collections ("Ognetsvit", "Meteor", "Hurricane", "Son-grass", "White Gart", "Contrasts"). His poem "Glory to Ukraine" (1917), set to music by Kyrylo Stetsenko, became one of the popular glories of the Liberation Struggles. During the Ukrainian Revolution, he served as a Cossack in the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Regiment. He was an active participant and organizer of the anti-Bolshevik insurgent movement. In July 1919, on behalf of the Insurgent Committee, he organized armed actions in the Chernihiv region in order to disorganize the rear of the Soviet troops. He belonged to the All-Ukrainian Central Insurgent Committee in Kyiv. Arrested by the Kyiv provincial Cheka on June 23, 1921. Sentenced to the death penalty and shot on August 28, 1921 in Kyiv. As a sign of deep respect for Hryhoriy Chuprynka in patriotic circles, the commander-in-chief of the UPA, Roman Shukhevych, later chose the underground pseudonym "Taras Chuprynka". Rehabilitated in 1996.