AUTOGRAPH OF THE ukrainian poet-baikar MIKITI HOLDERS Godovanets Nikita Pavlovich was born on September 26, 1893 in the village of Viknina, Ternivska village, Kamyanets-Podilsky province (now - Hayvoronsky district of Kirovograd region) in a peasant family. After graduating from the Stepashan school, he studied at two-year courses in preparation for the university, taught in the church and parish schools of the villages of Orlivka and Bubnivka on Podillia. In 1914-1918 he was not in military service. Returning to his native places, for some time he taught in the villages, and then began to work in the editorial offices of the newspapers "Chervony krai" (Vinnytsia) and "Soviet Volyn" (Zhytomir). The first poems of Godovanets appeared in print in 1913 on the pages of the Kiev weekly "Mayak". A number of poems were published in the newspaper "Free Word" (Revel) in 1917. In his translation, the political department of the 41st Rifle Division of the Red Army in 1920 published a collection of Demyan Biedny's "Fights and Songs". The first book of original fables "The Insurgent Klim" was published in 1927. By order of the 20s-30s, he published about a dozen small volumes of books, which bore mainly agitational motives associated with the then tasks of establishing a new one in farming, life, culture. On January 31, 1937, Nikita Godovants was arrested and, by a special meeting at the NKVD dated June 13 of the same year, was sent to Middle Kolym, where he stayed until 1947. Ten years later, on September 11, 1957, he received an official rehabilitation - a certificate from the military tribunal of the Kiev Military District testified that the resolution of the special meeting of 13.VIII.1937 "was canceled and the case was terminated." Having settled in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Nikita Godovanets gives himself to active literary work. He writes original fables, performs translations and renditions, studies the experience of Ukrainian classical, Russian, and European fables in general, provides practical assistance to young bikers, conducting creative seminars with them in Kamyanets-Podilskyi. A notable contribution of the experienced artist to the development of the Ukrainian fable was his books "Fights" (1957), "Linging mathematics" (1961), "Convalia and Lopuhi" (1966), "Talanovyta Triska" (1967). For a long time Godovanets worked on the artistic development of the fable of ancient times, the Renaissance, the creative heritage of prominent Western European masters of this genre. His work was crowned with the publication of books "River of Wisdom. Tales for Ezop" (1964), "Funny pedant" (1965), "Fights of foreign bikers in the renditions and translations of Nikita Godovants" (1973). He died on 27 August 1974 in Kamianets-Podilskyi.