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Oleksandr Oles (real name Oleksandr Ivanovych Kandyba) (1878–1944) was a prominent Ukrainian writer and poet. He is the father of another Ukrainian poet and political activist, Oleh Olzhych, who perished in the Nazi labor camps in 1944.
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1878-12-05
Bilopillia, Kharkiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine]
