 Ivan Vasilenko

Ivan Dmitrievich Vasilenko (, ; January 20, 1895 – May 26, 1966), was a Russian Soviet author of children's books.Ivan Dmitrievich Vasilenko was born January 20, 1895 in the village of Makiivka, in Don Host Oblast (in present-day Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine) in a clerk’s family.