Hryhorii Kosynka

[1] Hryhorii Strelets was born in 1899 in the selo of Shcherbanivka, currently in Obukhiv Raion of Kyiv Oblast, in a peasant family.

[1] During the Russian Civil War, he first fought with the Green Ataman and then with the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

At the same time, he was writing for various newspapers and magazines in Kyiv, as well as speaking on radio and collaborating with the film studio.

He was one of the founders of the writers association Lanka, which in 1926 was renamed to The Workshop of Revolutionary Literature.

He was sentenced to death penalty and executed together with a group of Ukrainian writers which included Dmytro Falkivskyi.