High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Volodymyr Sosyura (Ukrainian: Володимир Сосюра) (born January 6, 1898 in Debaltseve, in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate (today Donbas region) of the Russian Empire - died January 8, 1965 in Kiev, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union) was a Ukrainian lyric poet.