Solovki prison camp
Semenko was an active participant of the movement that sought to break with the official Soviet cultural policy at the onset of the 20th century. His dissident art led him to establish avant-garde groups in Kyiv and Kharkiv. He established these futurist groups as an alternative to Russian Cubo-Futurism. Along with several Ukrainian intellectuals, he was arrested in 1937 and sent to a death camp. He was executed by NKVD in Solovki prison camp during the Great Purge. In the 1957 he was rehabilitated.