List of Famous people born in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine

Nikolai Gogol

First Name Nikolai
Died on February 21, 1852

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin.

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Vera Kholodnaya

Вера Васильевна Левченко
First Name Vera
Last Name Kholodnaya
Born on August 5, 1893
Died on February 16, 1919 (aged 25)

Vera Vasilyevna Kholodnaya was a Russian actress of Ukrainian origin. She was the first star of Russian silent cinema. Only five of her films still exist and the total number she acted in is unknown, with speculation ranging between fifty and one hundred.

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Andriy Danylko

Андрій Михайлович Данилко
First Name Andriy
Born on October 2, 1973 (age 50)

Andriy Mykhailovych Danylko, better known for his drag stage persona Verka Serduchka, is a Ukrainian comedian and pop and dance singer. Danylko represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 as Verka Serduchka and finished in second place. Serduchka has sold over 600,000 records during his career in Ukraine.

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Lyudmila Rudenko

First Name Lyudmila
Born on July 27, 1904
Died on February 28, 1986 (aged 81)

Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion, from 1950 until 1953.

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Symon Petliura

First Name Symon
Last Name Petliura
Died on May 25, 1926

Symon Vasylyovych Petliura (Ukrainian: Си́мон Васи́льович Петлю́ра; 22 May [O.S. 10 May] 1879 – May 25, 1926) was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He became the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Army and the President of the Ukrainian People's Republic during Ukraine's short-lived sovereignty in 1918–1921, leading Ukraine's struggle for independence following the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917.

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Trofim Lysenko

First Name Trofim
Born on September 17, 1898
Died on November 20, 1976 (aged 78)

Trofím Denísovich Lysénko was a Soviet agronomist and biologist. Lysenko was a strong proponent of Lamarckism and rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas termed Lysenkoism.

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Hryhorii Skovoroda

Григорій Сковорода
Died on November 9, 1794

Hryhorii Skovoroda, also Gregory Skovoroda or Grigory Skovoroda was a philosopher of Ukrainian Cossack origin who lived and worked in the Russian Empire. He was also a poet, teacher and composer of liturgical music. His significant influence on his contemporaries and succeeding generations and his way of life were universally regarded as Socratic, and he was often called a "Socrates." Skovoroda's work contributed to the cultural heritage of both modern-day Ukraine and Russia.

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Alexander Pechersky

First Name Alexander
Last Name Pechersky
Born on February 22, 1909
Died on January 19, 1990 (aged 80)

Alexander 'Sasha' Pechersky was one of the organizers, and the leader, of the most successful uprising and mass-escape of Jews from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II; which occurred at the Sobibor extermination camp on 14 October 1943.

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Vladimir Zamanskiy

First Name Vladimir
Last Name Zamanskiy

Vladimir Petrovich Zamansky is a Russian film and theater actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988), citizen of Murom (2013), and a Recipient of the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class.

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Yuri Kondratyuk

First Name Yuri
Last Name Kondratyuk
Born on June 9, 1897
Died on February 23, 1942 (aged 44)

Yuri Vasilievich Kondratyuk was a Soviet engineer and mathematician. He was a pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight, a theoretician and a visionary who, in the early 20th century, developed the first known lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR), a key concept for landing and return spaceflight from Earth to the Moon. The LOR was later used for the plotting of the first actual human spaceflight to the Moon. Many other aspects of spaceflight and space exploration are covered in his works.

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