Alexander Petrovich Yanko ( April 11, 1879 , . Stary Sanzhary , now the village of Novosanzhar district of the Poltava region - September 22, 1938 , Kiev) is a member of the Ukrainian Central Rada and the All-Russian Constituent Assembly , a journalist.
| Alexander Petrovich Yanko | |
|---|---|
| Oleksandr Petrovich Yanko | |
| Date of Birth | April 11, 1879 |
| Place of Birth | with. Old Sanzhary , Poltava County , Poltava Province |
| Date of death | September 22, 1938 (59 years old) |
| Place of death | Kiev |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  Unr  the USSR |
| Occupation | Member of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly . |
| The consignment | Ukrainian Social Revolutionaries |
Biography
Born into a peasant family. He graduated from primary school. Not being able to continue learning, engaged in self-education.
1896–1905 - worked in the Poltava provincial zemstvo: first as assistant secretary, then as head of the department and secretary of the department of zemstvo charities.
From 1904, he belonged to the organization of the Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionaries (UCPR), was one of the leading figures of the social-revolutionary movement in the Poltava region. For political convictions, he was persecuted by the tsarist administration. First arrested on December 18, 1905 in Poltava. A few months spent in prison. In 1908 he was sentenced to three years in prison, then to an eternal settlement in Siberia.
In exile, he mastered accounting, worked as an accountant in the construction of a railway in Nizhneudinsk , Velestovsky coal mining in the Irkutsk province , the Kemerovo branch of the Kolchuginskaya railway and other works.
After the February Revolution of 1917, he remained in Western Siberia for some time, where he worked as a trade commissioner. From April 1917 - a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, was a member of the UCP Central Committee. In the summer of 1917 he returned to Poltava, where he was elected chairman of the Poltava Provincial Council of Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies, as well as a member of the provincial and district councils. Elected to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly in the Poltava electoral district on list No. 8 (Ukrainian Social Revolutionaries and Selyanskaya Spilka.) [1] .
Member of the Ukrainian Central Rada . In June 1917, at the All-Ukrainian Peasant Congress, he was elected delegate to the All-Ukrainian Constituent Assembly from the Poltava province. In November 1918, according to the list of the Peasant Union and the UPSR, he was elected delegate to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly. Editor of the party organ of the UCPR - the newspaper "Narodnaya Volya" .
In the period of the Ukrainian state - a member of the Ukrainian National Union, one of the organizers of the anti-Getman uprising.
In November 1918, Alexander Yanko was one of the candidates to the UNR Directorate . After the restoration of the UPR, he was elected Chairman of the Central Committee of the Agricultural Department, headed the organizing committee of the UCPR. In January 1919 partly moved to the position of Bolshevism.
He worked as a journalist in various Ukrainian magazines.
With the advent of Soviet power, he was exiled to Tomsk . In 1920-1923 he lived in Tomsk, then returned to Ukraine. 1930 became a member of the Kiev branch of the All-Union Society of Political Convicts .
December 26, 1937 arrested for "participating in a nationalist terrorist organization." September 2, 1938 the military board of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced to death.
Literature
- Protasov L. G. People of the Constituent Assembly: Portrait in the Interior of the Epoch. M., ROSPEN, 2008.
- Yanko Oleksander // Encyclopaedia of Ukraine / V. Kubiyovich . - Paris; New York: Molodev Life, 1954-1989. (in Ukrainian) . Slovnikov part. - T. 10.
- Ostashko T. Yanko Oleksandr Petrovich // Dovidnik from the History of Ukraine. - 2 nd view. - K., 2001. - P. 1124-1125.
- Istoriya Poltavi. Oleksandr Petrovich Yanko