 Vasyl exchanged from Krasnodar Institute into the postgraduate school of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, wrote his thesis on the realistic and the fantastic in the Divine Comedy by Dante, and presented the thesis in 1940.He has lectured at the Philology faculty at Rostov University.In 1941, after Great Patriotic War outbroke, Vasyl Barka volunteered, in 1942 he was badly injured, was caught in occupation.