Ada Chumachenko

Ada Artemyevna Chumachenko (Russian: Ада Артемьевна Чумаченко; 9 September 1887 – 5 May 1954) was a Russian poet, playwright and writer.

Ada Chumachenko
Chumachenko in 1927
Born	9 September 1887 Taganrog
Died	5 May 1954 (1954-05-06) (aged 66) Moscow

Life

Chumachenko was born in Taganrog in 1887. Her parents Artemy Pavlovich Chumachenko and Ariadna Iasonovna Chumachenko (born Blonskaya) were both Ukrainian and teachers.^[1]

She began publishing poetry locally in 1895 at the age of eight^[1] and more widely from 1905. She wrote two plays for children which were staged by the Nezlobin Theater: Lully the Musician, which won a prize in 1912, and The Snow Queen in 1915. She published her first book of poems in 1912.^[1]

After the Russian Revolution, she led the theater section at the People's Commissariat for Education in the Moscow Palace of Arts.^[2] She brought on many young writers including Maxim Gorky.^[3] After 1926 she wrote for children and her best received work was "A Man from the Moon" in 1939. This was a fictional biography of the scientist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay.^[1]

During the war she moved jobs and ended up in 1945 at the children's magazine Murzilka.

Chumachenko died in Moscow in 1954.