Myroslava Sopilka

Myroslava Sopilka, real name Yulia Semenivna Mysko-Pastushenko (29 August 1897 – 28 November 1937), was a Ukrainian poet and novelist.

Myroslava Sopilka was born in Vynnyky, Lviv oblast on 29 August 1897 as one of five children[1] in the family of peasants.

[3] At the end of 1930, she moved with her husband and two children[4] to Soviet Ukraine, first to the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, where she worked in the local history museum.

[3] On 30 September 1937, Myroslava Sopilka was arrested together with her husband Mykhailo Pastushenko and accused of spying for Polish intelligence.

[2] And yet, on 22 November 1937, a special meeting of The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR (NKVD) sentenced the poet to be shot.