11 Facts About Hryhorii Epik

Hryhorii Danylovych Epik was a Ukrainian writer and journalist.

Hryhorii Epik supported the Soviet Ukrainization during the 1920s, which likely led to his arrest and execution during the Great Purge in the 1930s.

Hryhorii Epik was fired from his job in 1918 after he had taken part in the anti-Hetmanate uprising.

Hryhorii Epik later moved to Poltava, where he worked as a political instructor, secretary and chairman of the district executive committee.

Hryhorii Epik participated in the activities of cultural and educational societies, was a member of the Union of Peasant Writers "Plough", and later joined the VAPLITE group led by Mykola Khvyliovyi.

Hryhorii Epik was a member of several Ukrainian literary organizations such as the Plough, Prolitfront and VAPLITE.

Hryhorii Epik was arrested on 5 December 1934, accused of being a Ukrainian nationalist and a member of a secret terrorist organization.

In contrast to those arrested in Kharkiv at the same time, such as Mykola Kulish, who for a long time denied the trumped-up charges, Hryhorii Epik admitted without resistance that he belonged to a mythical terrorist organization, which allegedly included Kulish, Klym Polishchuk, Valerian Pidmohylnyi, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, and Vasyl Vrazlivyi.

Hryhorii Epik was, afterwards, discouraged and stopped writing, burning short stories and a novel he had written "in honor of Cheka".

Hryhorii Epik was one of the "lost transport" of prisoners shipped back to the mainland in 1937 from Solovki.

Hryhorii Epik was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.