Yurii Yanovskyi worked as an editor-in-chief at the Odesa Film Factory, where he fell in love with the actress Yuliia Solntseva, but she reciprocated his friend Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s love.
From November 1945 to March 1946, Yurii Yanovskyi became a special correspondent for “the Pravda Ukrainy” (“The Truth of Ukraine”) newspaper at the Nuremberg trials.
He underwent six surgeries and was on the verge of death.
Yanovsky’s “writer’s kitchen” was an empty table and a pile of paper.
Poverty led Yanovsky to pawn whole packages of his favourite books.
Leading doctors in the capital made a mistake in diagnosing the writer: instead of a stomach ulcer, they diagnosed a heart attack, which led to his death. On 25 February 1954, Yurii Yanovskyi died.
