and in the same year became a member of the Presidium of the Writers' Union of Ukraine. During the Great Patriotic War Bazhan became a military reporter and the editor of the newspaper For the Soviet Ukraine. In 1943 he published a book, Stalingrad Notebook, for which in 1946 he received the Stalin Prize. In 1953-59 Bazhan headed the Writer's Union of Ukraine. During the "Khrushchev thaw", on July 2, 1956 he raised before the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine the issue of rehabilitation several repressed writers: Vasyl Bobynsky, Hryhorii Epik, Ivan Kulyk, Mykola Kulish, and many more. In 1970 Bazhan was nominated for a Nobel Prize in literature, but he was forced by Soviet authorities to write a letter refusing his candidature. From 1957 and until his death, Bazhan was the founding chief editor of the Main Edition of Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia publishing. The publishing was not completed in his lifetime; the first edition was, however, as the initial Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia in 17 volumes was released 1959–1965. A second (and final, as events would develop) 12-volume work was released 1977–1985. The enterprise was additionally responsible for a large number of other major Ukrainian reference works. Bazhan also was one of co-authors of the Anthem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He died in Kiev in 1983. Moisei Fishbein, a notable Ukrainian poet was Bazhan's literary secretary. Bazhan in English A collection of English translations of Bazhan's futurist poetry titled Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul was published by the Academic Studies Press in 2019. Awards and prizes Shota Rustaveli State Prize of the Georgian SSR (1937) Order of Lenin (1939, 1954, 1960, 1964, 1974) Order of the Red Banner (1940s) Stalin Prize (1946, 1949) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1948, 1967) Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1965) State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1971) Hero of Socialist Labour (1974) External links Bazhan's poetry in English translation References This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in the Russian Wikipedia. 1904 births 1983 deaths People from Kamianets-Podilskyi People from Kamenets-Podolsky Uyezd Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Vice Prime Ministers of Ukraine Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Fifth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of