Oleksandr Slyvka

Oleksandr Ivanovich Slivka was a Ukrainian composer.
He was born in the village of Ötvösfalva, then part of Hungary, Austria-Hungary into a peasant family. He graduated from the Khust Gymnasium in 1931 and the history faculty of the Uzhgorod State University in 1952 by correspondence.
He worked as a teacher in the 1930s in Tyachiv Oblast in the village of Velyatino, and later in the post-war years - in Khust Secondary Schools No. 1 and 3.
As an actor, he took an active part in the work of the drama group at the Khust House of Culture.
His first literary works - the plays named "Bearded Misunderstanding" and "Saint Nicholas" were published at the end of 1937 in the literary magazine "Bee". During his period of teaching in Tyachiv Oblast, a number of his stories were published in the magazine "Our Native Land" and in the newspaper "Literary Sunday". The collection of short stories titled "Under A Thatched Roof" was published as a separate edition in 1943.
Slivka died in 2008 and is buried at the Khust cemetery in nearby Khust.