Yuriy Budiak Author

Yuriy Budiak (1879-1943) was born in the Ukrainian village of Krasnogirka. He spent his youth travelling around Ukraine, and volunteered as a soldier fighting against the British in the Boer War. On his return to Ukraine he worked as a civil servant and as a teacher. He wrote short stories, plays and poetry, and was allied with the peasant literary group called Pluh (Plough).