title: Mykola Chaban
text: # Mykola Chaban
  
  Mykola Chaban (Ukrainian: Микола Петрович Чабан) is a Soviet and Ukrainian journalist, a Ukrainian prose writer, specialist in regional studies of Dnipropetrovsk region. He is a Merited Journalist of Ukraine (2007).
  
  Mykola Chaban was born in Dnipropetrovsk on 5 March 1958. He graduated from the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology at the Dnipropetrovsk State University (specialization - "Ukrainian language and literature"). Since then Chaban worked in newspapers of Dniprodzerzhynsk and Dnipropetrovsk. Currently he works at a Dnipropetrovsk regional newspaper "Zoria" as an editor on cultural issues.
  
  ## Membership
  
  * National Writers Union of Ukraine
  * All-Ukrainian Union of regional researchers
  * International Association of Belarusian Studies
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Valerian Pidmohylny National Writers Union of Ukraine Award (2004)
  * Khoroshun Award (1993)
  * Dmytro Yavornytsky honorary diploma (1994) for the book "Sicheslav in heart"
  * Person of the Year (Dniprodzerzhynsk 1995) as journalist
  * Honors of Mayor of Dniprodzerzhynsk (2004) for the book "Journey through old Kamianske"
  * Laureate of year by the periodical "Courier of Kryvbas" (1994, 1995)
  