Hopenko Peter A.

I was born in Kyiv, in the village Makarivka, Ladyzhyn district. Father Alex Hopenko Mitrofanovich was a farmer. During the famine in 1933 in Kyiv region and Cherkasy almost all villages dying of hunger. To die of hunger, the father managed zaverbuvatysya in Dnipropetrovsk, city of Nikopol, where workers were required to begin construction of the South Tube Metallurgical Plant.