Igor Vayner / Ukr: Igorqa - prosocial anti-propagandistic activist in Western Ukraine (1920’s)
Channel: Vayner Heritage UA
Date: 05/02/2020

Biography of Igor Vayner, (real name Zinovi Arnoldovich Vayner[1], Ukrainian: Iгор Вайнер, Вайнер Зіновій Арнольдович;) (14 February 1902 - 3 November 1937, Ukraine), nicknamed “Igorqa” (Ukrainian: "Iгорка") was a Ukrainian architect, prosocial counter-revolutionary activist. He is known for soft sabotage of soviet expansion to the Western Ukraine region, specifically Vinnytsia.

Helped writers and artists of 1920s and early 1930s to hide from Stalin’s totalitarian regime. Was a close friend of Mykola Zerov, a neoclassical poet and shared the ideas of the national identity survival. Died during the Great Terror campaign among the other representatives of Executed Renaissance[2].