The aim of my project is to write the intellectual biography of Mykhailo Drai-Khmara and to examine his poetic, translation, and academic activities against the background of the Ukrainian cultural process of the 1920s and 1930s. Drai-Khmara was a key figure in Ukrainian Slavic studies and one of the representatives of Ukrainian modernism. He had contacts with the Romanian language and culture. His biography illustrates the heyday of Ukrainian culture brutally interrupted by Stalin’s terror.