Pavlo Khrystiuk

Pavlo Khrystiuk (Ukrainian: Павло Оникійович Христюк Pavlo Onykiyovych Khrystiuk, Russian: Па́вел Анике́евич Христю́к) (1880 – September 19, 1941) was a Ukrainian cooperator, historian, journalist, political activist, and statesman.

Pavlo Khrystiuk Павло Оникійович Христюк
Chancellor
In office June 15, 1917 – August 14, 1917
Prime Minister	Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	Oleksandr Lototsky
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office January 30, 1918 – February 1918
Prime Minister	Vsevolod Holubovych
Preceded by	Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Succeeded by	Mykhailo Tkachenko
State Secretary
In office February 1918 – April 29, 1918
Prime Minister	Vsevolod Holubovych
Preceded by	Ivan Mirny
Succeeded by	Vyshnevsky (coup d'etat)
Personal details
Born	1880 Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	September 29, 1941 (aged 60–61) Sevvostlag, Soviet Union
Political party	UPSR (center)
Alma mater	Kiev Polytechnic Institute
Occupation	cooperator, historian, journalist, political activist, and statesman

Biography

Khrystiuk was born in the Kuban Oblast. He studied in Kiev Polytechnic Institute as his party co-member, Vsevolod Holubovych. He worked for the newspaper Rada (Council). In 1916-17 he also worked for journal "Komashnia". Later in his career were the socialists-revolutionary newspapers "Borotba" and "Trudova Hromada".

He became a member of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party (UPSR) and the Villagers Association. Also he was a member of the Central Rada and the Rada Minor as well as the Pysar (Scribe) in the General Secretariat of Ukraine. He is the co-author of the Land Reform of January 31, 1918.

He was a Minister of the Internal Affairs in the government of Vsevolod Holubovych (1918) and the deputy Minister in the government of Isaak Mazepa (1919). After the IV Party Congress he was among the members of the central current as M.Hrushevsky.

From 1919 Khrystiuk emigrated to Vienna, where he was a member of the UPSR "foreign delegation" and worked in the magazine "Boritesia-poboryte!". He returned to Ukraine in 1924 and worked for the Association of scientific and technological workers to influence the socialist construction (Kharkiv, 1928-1931). At that time he was also employed for the Chervony Shliach newspaper along with Pavlo Tychyna. He was the author of the history of revolution in Ukraine as well as numerous other books on the history of Ukraine.

Khrystiuk was arrested on March 2, 1931 as the member of the Ukrainian National Center and was convicted to imprisonment. He died in one of the camps of the Sevvostlag, Khabarovsk Krai.

Sources

• Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies (in 10 volumes), editor Volodymyr Kubiyovych. "Molode Zhyttia". Paris, New-York, 1954—1989;
• Minor dictionary of history of Ukraine, editor Valeriy Smoliy. — "Lybid". Kyiv, 1997;
• Padun-Lukyanova, Lesia. Extended name index;
• Surovtsova, Nadia. Recollections. "Olena Teliha Publishing". Kyiv, 1996.

External links

• Works by or about Pavlo Khrystiuk at Internet Archive
• Chysnikov, V. Energetic and creative person. "Imenem zakonu".