Pavlo Chrystyuk

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Pavlo Chrystjuk 1917

Pavlo Onykijowytsch Chrystjuk ( Ukrainian Павло Оникійович Христюк ; * 1890 in Jelyssavetska , Kuban Oblast , Russian Empire ; † September 19, 1941 in the Sevwostlag-Gulag in the Khabarovsk region , Soviet Union ) was a Ukrainian journalist and politician.

Life

Pavlo Chrystjuk came from a wealthy Cuban Cossack family and studied at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute . Already active in politics during his student days, he became a member of the Ukrainian Zentralna Rada in 1917 and from June 15 to August 14, 1917 General Secretary in the General Secretariat of the Ukrainian Zentralna Rada . On January 30, 1918, he briefly became Minister of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic . In the following month, February of the same year, he was State Secretary of the Ukrainian State until April 29, 1918, and finally he was the Deputy Minister of the Interior in the government of Issaak Masepa .

In 1919 Chrystjuk went into exile in Vienna , from which he returned to the Ukraine in 1924 and worked as a journalist and between 1928 and 1931 for the Society for Scientific and Technical Workers for the Promotion of Socialist Construction in Kharkiv. In 1931 he was arrested by the OGPU and sentenced in a political process on February 7, 1932. He died in 1941 in the Sevwostlag Gulag in the Russian Far East .

Individual evidence

  1. Online Training Materials - The Formation of the General Secretariat ; accessed on December 6, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  2. Biography Pawlo Chrystjuk on ukrainians-world; accessed on December 5, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  3. Biography Pawlo Chrystjuk on history.vn.ua; accessed on December 5, 2016 (Ukrainian)
  4. ^ Entry on Pavlo Chrystjuk in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on December 5, 2016