WGrigory Borisovich Adamov was a Soviet science fiction writer, best known for his novels Conquerors of the Underground (1937), The Mystery of the Two Oceans (1939) and The Ousting of the Ruler (1946).
WBarvinok Volodymyr Ivanovych was a Ukrainian historian, theologist, bibliographer, writer, archaeologist, prominent archivist, statesman of the Ukrainian National Republic, honorary citizen of the Chernihiv region, scholar at the Ukrainian Academy of Science, and teacher of Ukrainian culture and history.
WDniprova Chayka was the pen name of Liudmyla Vasylevska, a Ukrainian educator and writer.
WSemen (Semyon) Fishelevich Gluzman is a Ukrainian psychiatrist and human rights activist.
WYaroslav Olexandrovych Halan was a Ukrainian Soviet anti-fascist writer, playwright, publicist, member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine since 1924, killed by nationalist insurgents in 1949.
WHrytsko Hryhorenko was the pen name for Oleksandra Sudovshchykova-Kosach, who was a Ukrainian journalist and writer.
WNataliya Kobrynska was a Ukrainian writer, socialist feminist, and activist.
WOlha Yulianivna Kobylianska was a Ukrainian modernist writer and feminist.
WSergei Loznitsa is a Ukrainian director known for his documentary as well as dramatic films.
WLeonid Ivanovych Plyushch was a Ukrainian mathematician and Soviet dissident.
WMilena Rudnytska was a Ukrainian educator, women's activist, politician and writer. One of the most influential voices in the interwar period of the Galician women's movement leadership, she published articles in various periodicals. As a member of the Polish Sejm between 1928 and 1935, she brought issues of suppression by government authorities to the world stage, including the Polish regime's efforts to repress the culture of minority Ukrainians and the Soviet regime's denial of starvation in Ukraine during the famine of 1932-1933. With the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Ukraine, Rudnytska fled the country and remained an exile for the remainder of her days, publishing books and articles as she moved throughout Europe and the United States.
WEli Schechtman was a Yiddish writer. He defined the purpose of his work as follows: "My mission in Jewish literature was and still is ... to show to those who negate the power of the Galut, how mighty – spiritually and physically – were the generations who grew up in that Galut, even in the most godforsaken places."
WVasyl Olexandrovych Sukhomlynsky was a Ukrainian humanistic educator in the Soviet Union who saw the aim of education in producing a truly humane being.
WIryna Vilde, a pen name of Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk, was a Ukrainian writer and Soviet correspondent.
WLyubov Yanovska was a Ukrainian writer and feminist.
WYevheniya Yaroshynska was a Ukrainian educator, writer and activist.