Notes: Noman Çelebicihan (Numan Çelebi Cihan) (1885–1918) was a Crimean Tatar politician, lawyer, Mufti of Crimean Moslems, and writer. He was the first President of the short-lived independent Crimean People's Republic, established on November 26 (December 9 under the Gregorian Calendar), 1917. He is known for having written the poem "Ant etkenmen" ("I've pledged"), which became the Crimean Tatar national anthem. His early death at the hands of Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War is still commemorated in the Crimean Tatar nation. (wikipedia.org)
Notes: Іван Федорович Драч - український поет, перекладач, кіносценарист, драматург, державний і громадський діяч. Перший голова Народного Руху України (1989). Герой України (2006). (Wikipedia)
Notes: Vasyl Semenovych Stefanyk - Ukrainian writer, master of expressionist novels, social activist, and politician. Ambassador (MP) of the Austrian parliament of Galicia. (Wikipedia)
Notes: Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky - Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th century. Kotsiubynsky's early stories were described as examples of ethnographic realism; in the years to come, with his style of writing becoming more and more sophisticated, he evolved into one of the most talented Ukrainian impressionist and modernist writers.[1] The popularity of his novels later led to some of them being made into Soviet movies. (Wikipedia)
Notes: An illustration by Anatolii Bazylevych from the book "How Mamay went to Canada" by Volodymyr Yakovych Brovchenko. "Radianskyi pysmennyk" publishing house, 1984.
Notes: The outstanding Ukrainian composer Kyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko was born in 1882 in the Kvitky village in the Kaniv region. Illustration from the schoolbook Music for the fourth grade, 1973. Artist - H.S. Kovpanenko.