Mykola Bazhan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mykola Bazhan

Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1904

Place of Birth: Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1983

Profession: writer, poet, politician, translator, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Mykola Platonovych Bazhan (Ukrainian: ?????? ?????????? ?????; 9 October [O.S.
26 September] 1904 – 23 November 1983) was a Soviet Ukrainian writer, poet, highly decorated political and public figure.
He was an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (1951), Merited Science Specialist of Ukrainian SSR (1966), Merited Art Specialist of Georgian SSR (1964), People's Poet of Uzbek SSR. Bazhan was a People's Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union for two of five convocations (1946–1962), and the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR for six of nine convocations (1963–1980).
He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR on several occasions at the party's congresses (17 of and 21 of 25).
In 1943–49 Bazhan was a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Minister (Commissars) of the Ukrainian SSR.