Mykhailo Havrylko

Mykhailo Omelianovych Havrylko (Ukrainian: Михайло Омелянович Гаврилко; 5 September 1882, Kozatski Khutory near Runivshchyna, now Poltava Oblast – autumn 1920, Poltava) was a Ukrainian sculptor, graphic artist, poet, and soldier.

Participant of the Liberation Movement as a member of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen and the UPR Army (1915–1919).

[1] In 1904, he graduated from the Myrhorod Art and Industrial School (teacher – Opanas Slastion), in 1905 – from the St. Petersburg School of Technical Drawing, in 1912 – from the Kraków Academy of Arts (studio of Konstanty Laszczka), and trained with the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (Paris).

[4] Havrylko received an order from the management of the consumer cooperative to make a bust of Taras Shevchenko to be installed in the villages of Poltava Oblast.

Participated in 4 international competitions for the design of a monument to Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv (1910 – 1st prize).

The tomb at Lychakiv Cemetery, where she is buried with her relatives