Lanka (MARS)

'Lanka' (later renamed MARS — the 'Workshop of the Revolutionary Word') is a literary grouping of Kyiv writers that operated in 1924–1929 and united artists who sought creative independence, high craftsmanship, and psychological depth, avoiding both Proletkult mass-ism and direct ideological engagement. To the group belonged Valerian Pidmohylny, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Hryhorii Kosynka, Todos Osmachka, and Mariia Halych. 'Lanka' was the Kyiv counterpart of the Kharkiv VAPLITE and likewise defended the quality and European level of Ukrainian prose and poetry. The work of its members — the intellectual prose of Pidmohylny, the philosophical lyric of Pluzhnyk, the expressive novellas of Kosynka — belongs to the summits of the era. Most members of the grouping were killed in the era of the Stalinist repressions of the Executed Renaissance.