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Semen Pavlovych Bublyk (Ukrainian: Бублик Семен Павлович, 25 April 1909 - 1990) was a Soviet Ukrainian professor and scientist in the field of agricultural sciences of the Ukrainian Cossack origin.
Biography
Semen Bublyk was born in the village of Kapustyntsi, today within the Yahotyn Raion of Kyiv oblast, Ukraine. His father, Pavlo Fedotovych Bublyk, was a tailor of Ukrainian Cossack origin and Orthodox faith. His forefathers were serfs of Count Pyotr Rumyantsev.
Descendant of old Ukrainian Cossack family, which like many common Christian people of the region were enslaved in the 18th century but preserved belief that real Cossacks are free people by the will of God. He supported the struggle under the red banners on the territory of Ukraine and former Russian Empire in 1917–1923 years, which resulted in creation of Soviet Union.
Bublyk had five brothers, all of them can be classified as Red Cossacks, supporters and defenders of the Soviet ideology under red banners in some or other way: the social activist and registry Red Cossack Kuzma Bublyk (1901-1925), Danylo Bublyk, in 1938-1940 officer of the NKVD, cavalry and communications officer Vasyl Bublyk, Ivan Bublyk, officer of SMERSH during World War II and village teacher Yakiv Pavlovych Bublyk (1905–1999).
During his childhood and youth as many young people of his generation he supported the Soviet ideology and restructuring of society expressed by Soviet communist worldview. The 1930s were the period of big troubles for people of Ukraine and Soviet Union caused by Great Famine and preparation for war with uprising fascism but also period of active social development in economic, cultural and social security spheres. Semen like many people of his generation was witness of this processes.
From 1941 to 1945, Bublyk fought in the Great Patriotic war as a military engineer. In 1944 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his participation in the Vistula–Oder Offensive. and in 1945 he among other soldiers took part in the capture of Berlin.
War made not so good impact on his health, because he was wounded many times and those old wounds later gave him troubles during all his life.
Before World War II Bublyk graduated from the Agricultural University in Kiev. After the War he then became a professor and worked there for many years. During his lectures he taught in the Ukrainian language because he thought that Ukrainian high school need native Ukrainian language to be taught with, not only Russian.