Vasyl Poraiko
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Vasyl Ivanovych Poraiko (Ukrainian: Василь Іванович Порайко; 12 October 1888, Ustea, now in Kolomyia Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine – 25 October 1937) was a Ukrainian Soviet statesman and lawyer.
Biography
[edit]He studied at Chernivtsi University and Lviv University, graduating in 1914. On the outbreak of World War I he was recruited into the Austro-Hungarian Army, but was captured by the Russians in 1915. He supported the October Revolution of 1917 and in 1919 was sent to Ukraine, where he took part in the foundation of the Ukrainian SSR, acting as its second Prosecutor General from 1927 to 1930 and People's Commissar of Justice.
He was arrested by the NKVD charges of participation in the "bourgeois-nationalist anti-Soviet organization of the former Borotbists " and "the Ukrainian Military Organisation". He was shot in October, 1937 and posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Senkiv Mikhailo, Duminets Ivan: From the history of struggle for the unity of the Ukrainian lands 1917–1945 rr". Archived from the original on 2016-04-06.
Sources
[edit]- http://ruthenia.info/txt/vidrodzhenia/dumynetsi/ Archived 2016-04-06 at the Wayback Machine
- 1888 births
- 1937 deaths
- People from Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast
- People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians
- World War I prisoners of war held by Russia
- Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war in World War I
- Red Ukrainian Galician Army people
- Ukrainian politicians
- General Prosecutors of Ukraine
- Members of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee
- Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) members
- Great Purge victims from Ukraine
- Soviet lawyers
- Signatories of the Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Ukrainian politician stubs