Valeriya Vrublevskaya Ukrainian Soviet writer and playwright. Date of Birth: 19.12.1938 Country: Ukraine

Biography of Valeriya Vrublevskaya

Valeriya Vasilyevna Vrublevskaya (born Sakhnenko-Bereznak) was a Ukrainian Soviet writer and playwright. She was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers since 1972 and the Union of Writers of Ukraine since 1992. She became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1974.

Valeriya Vrublevskaya was born on December 19, 1938, in Zhytomyr, in a family of civil servants. At the age of 17, she enrolled in the Land Management Technical College but dropped out after marrying a political economy teacher, Vitaliy Vrublevsky (who later became an assistant to the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, V. Shcherbitsky). She moved to Kyiv with her husband and graduated from Kyiv University in 1968.

From 1971, she worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine until 1991. She obtained a PhD in Philosophy and became an associate professor.

In 1963, Valeriya Vrublevskaya made her debut as a translator from Polish. In 1964, she published her first book for children in Ukrainian. Later, her fairy tales were translated into Russian by Sergei Mikhalkov.

She wrote prose and plays in both Russian and Ukrainian. Vrublevskaya gained success with her play "The Department," which she translated into Russian herself. The play was first performed at the Russian Drama Theater and later staged in 80 theaters across the Soviet Union, as well as in Prague, Budapest, and Bucharest.