Olena Apanovych
Ukrainian historian (1919-2000)
Olena Mykhaylivna Apanovych (Ukrainian: Олена Михайлівна Апанович; 9 November 1919 – 21 February 2000) was a Ukrainian historian, a researcher of Zaporozhian Cossackdom. She was an Antonovych prize recipient.
Biography
Olena Apanovych was born in Melekes, Simbirsk Governorate (now Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Oblast), Russia, into the family of a railroad clerk. Her relatives recount her mother giving birth to Olena in a railroad car. Her father was of Belarusian peasant stock (hence the Belarusian last name Apanovich) and her mother was of small-time Polish nobility ancestry. She spent all her childhood in Manchuria, northeastern China, where her father worked. Her family was deported from China by the Japanese. They settled in Kharkiv in 1933, where Olena finished high school. Olena's mother died soon after and her father was suppressed in 1939 by false accusations.
In 1937, she entered the "All-Union Institute of Journalism" in Moscow, but the school was soon closed and Apanovych returned to Kharkiv where she graduated from the Pedagogical Institute (Faculty of Russian language and literature) shortly before the beginning of the Second World War.
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