Hrytsko (Hryhoriy) Chubai was born on Jan. 23 1949, in Berezyny, Rivne Oblast. He died on May 16, 1982 in Lviv. As a poet and translator, Chubai was one of the central figures in Ukrainian underground culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Chubai moved to Lviv in 1969 and gained popularity in the city’s cultural underground with his poem ‘Vertep’ (The Nativity Play).
