History of Kharkiv

thumb|290x280px|Members of VAPLITE in 1926, seated from left to right: Pavlo Tychyna, Mykola Khvylovy, Mykola Kulish, Oleksa Slisarenko, Mike Johansen, Gordiy Kotsyuba, Petro Punch, Arkady Lyubchenko. Standing, from left to right: Mykhailo Maisky, Hryhoriy Epik, Oleksandr Kopylenko, Ivan Senchenko, Pavlo Ivanov, Yuriy Smolych, Oles Dosvitniy, Ivan Dniprovsky. The Vilna Akademia Proletarskoi Literatury ( ВАПЛІТЕ, ) was a literary union in Ukraine. It was established in Kharkiv and existed from January, 1926 to January 28, 1928.