Sudomora, Okhrim [Судомора, Охрім], b 19 March 1889 in Boryspil, Pereiaslav county, Poltava gubernia, d 13 October 1968 in Kyiv. Graphic artist. After studying at the Kyivan Cave Monastery Icon Painting Studio (1904–7) under Ivan Izhakevych and at the Kyiv Art School (1907–13) he worked as a book illustrator and designer for publishing houses, such as the Chas publishing house, Dniprosoiuz, Dzvin, and the Vernyhora publishing house. He designed the journal Siaivo (1913–14) and numerous works of children's literature. He also taught at the Kyiv Graphic Arts and Printing School. In the 1920s he worked for Kyiv and Kharkiv publishing houses, where he designed books, such as Borys Hrinchenko’s Sam sobi pan (One’s Own Master, 1924), Taras Shevchenko’s Kobzar (1927), and Ostap Vyshnia’s Siisia, rodysia, zhyto, pshenytsia (Sow and Grow, Rye and Wheat, 1929), and journals such as Radians’ka shkola, Zhovten’, and Pioneriia. In 1943 he moved to Lviv, where he illustrated the children’s magazine Mali druzi and children’s books for Ukrainske Vydavnytstvo publishers. After the Second World War he worked for publishing houses in Kharkiv and Kyiv. He was accused by Soviet critics of formalistic deviations.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]