The poet Ivan Semanenko, a representative of the Lavra school of poetry, died. He was 90 years old.
At the age of 16 he tried to escape from the Soviet Union to the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, but he was arrested. For this, the poet was convicted and sent to Mordovian political camps. In the 1980s, together with Mykola Vorobiev and Oleg Lishga, the poets united in the Labra School of Poetry.
Ivan Semanenko's metaphorical poetry consists mainly of euphemisms. In 2016, his work was included in the "Anthology of Ukrainian Poetry of the 20th Century", compiled by Ivan Malkovich.