Sosyura Vladimir Mikhailovich (January 6, 1898 - January 8, 1965), Ukrainian writer, poet-lyricist, author of more than forty collections of poems and poems, the novel «The Third Company».

In 1951, he was sharply criticized, the reason for which was an article in the newspaper «Pravda», accusing Sosyura of «bourgeois nationalism» for the patriotic poem «Love Ukraine», written in 1944.