Mykhail Semenko
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Mykhaylo Semenko (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Семе́нко) was a Ukrainian poet, the prominent representative of the Ukrainian futuristic poetry of the 1920s. He is considered to be one of the lead figures of Executed Renaissance. He was a founder of futuristic groups Aspanfut, Komunkult, Nova Generatsiya. He was an editor in couple of almanacs and the journal "Nova generatsiya". As a poet Semenko wrote primarily for urban audiences. Semenko was arrested in 1937 and executed by NKVD during the Great Purge. In the mid-1960s he was rehabilitated.