Les Kurbas Biography
Les Kurbas (full name - Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas; February 25, 1887, Sambir, Kingdom of Galicia and Vladimir, Austria-Hungary - November 3, 1937, Sandarmokh, Karelian ASSR, RSFSR, USSR) - Ukrainian director, actor, theater theorist, playwright, publicist, translator. Representative of the shot revival. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1925)[4].
Founder of the Berezil Theater. Victim of Stalinist repressions.
