Serednytsky, Antin [Середницький, Антін; Serednyc'kyj; pseudonyms: Antin Verba, Antin Bilchuk, and others], b 1 March 1916 in Verbivka, Borshchiv county, Galicia, d 12 September 2012 in Warsaw. Ukrainian writer, educator, and community figure in postwar Poland. He graduated from Warsaw University (1948) and became a teacher in Warsaw. In 1960 he became an associate of the Warsaw University department of Ukrainian philology. He developed the curriculum for teaching the Ukrainian language in Poland’s elementary and secondary schools, and in 1966 he was appointed deputy head of the Ukrainian Language Curriculum Commission of the Polish Ministry of Education. In the years 1969–87 he published an elementary school Ukrainian grammar and seven Ukrainian readers. He also played a prominent role in the Ukrainian Social and Cultural Society (USKT [now OUP]) in Poland; for several terms he was its vice-president and head of its literary association, and he was chief editor (1962–87) of its annual, Ukraïns’kyi kalendar. He was a member of the Union of Polish Writers. His works were published in Soviet Ukrainian and USKT/OUP periodicals and separately. They include the story collections Proidenym shliakhom (The Road Traveled, 1976) and Mandrivka do Chaichynets' (A Trip to Chaichyntsi, 1984). His literary criticism and reviews appeared in the Polish press and scholarly journals. He received several Polish medals and citations for his contributions.

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