Ryndyk, Stepan

Ryndyk, Stepan [Риндик, Степан], b 13 September 1887 in Dunaivtsi, Nova Ushytsia county, Podilia gubernia, d 27 September 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Satirist and mechanical engineer. He graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnical Institute in 1914. In the interwar period he fled Bolshevik rule and went to Bohemia, where he taught at the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute and the Ukrainian Gymnasium in Czechoslovakia. He was evacuated to Germany in 1945, and emigrated to the United States of America in 1951. He wrote three poetry collections, all titled Logos (Prague 1942; Chicago 1961, 1971), the story collections Smilians'ka khronika (The Smila Chronicle, 1944) and Pryhody i liudy (Adventures and People, 1960), and Ukrainian textbooks on the strength of materials (1924) and the elements of machines (1943).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]