Vasyl Sukhomlynsky
Ukrainian educationalist (1918–1970)
Vasyl Olexandrovych Sukhomlynsky (Ukrainian: Василь Олександрович Сухомлинський; September 28, 1918 – September 2, 1970) was a Ukrainian humanistic educator in the Soviet Union who saw the aim of education in producing a truly humane being.
Biography
Sukhomlynsky was born in a peasant family in the village of Omelnyk, Vasylivka volost of Oleksandriia uezd (today Oleksandriia Raion of Kirovohrad Oblast in Ukraine). According to the baptismal records of the local church, his original surname was Sukhomyzsky (Сухомизський), and the current version of his name was only adopted in 1939. In 1933 he finished a seven-year school of primary education after which his mother escorted him to Kremenchuk where he enrolled into a local medical college (tekhnikum). However, he quit the medical school and enrolled into Robitfak which he finished in short term. In 1935 he started to work as a teacher not far from his native village.
In 1938 Sukhomlynsky enrolled into the Poltava Pedagogical Institute out of which he graduated the same year. Upon graduation, he returned to native lands where he worked as a teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature in the Onufriivka middle school. There he got married. During World War II he volunteered to the front-lines in 1941 and as a junior politruk was severely wounded in January 1942 during the defense of Moscow.
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