11 January] 1891 – September 16, 1967) was a major Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman.

Born in Pisky in 1891, he was baptized on January 27, which was mistakenly considered his birth date until recently.

His father, Hryhoriy Timofiyovych Tychynin, was a village deacon and a teacher in the local grammar school.

His mother, Maria Vasylivna Tychynina (Savytska), was eleven years younger than Pavlo's father.

Tychyna, whilst on the road to the institute's new location, became ill and was forced to stop and recover from his sickness.

After an immediate success with his poetry, in 1923 he moved to Kharkiv (Kharkov), entering the vibrant world of early post-Revolution Ukrainian literary organizations.

His initial work had strong connections to the symbolist literary movement, but his style transformed a number of times during his long career and frequently aped the acceptable socialist realism.

However, as the Communist approach to artistic expression hardened and the role of a state-supported artist became more defined and restricted, Tychyna's poetry shifted rather dramatically, using clear pro-Communist political language, including a famous ode to Joseph Stalin, and the lyrics of the state anthem of the Ukrainian SSR.

[citation needed] Tychyna was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967 by Omeljan Pritsak,[1] but died in September that year.