Pavlo Khrystiuk

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Onkiiovych and the family name is Khrytsiuk.

Pavlo Khrystiuk
Павло Христюк
Khrystiuk in 1917
Chancellor
In office 15 June 1917 – 14 August 1917
Prime Minister	Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Oleksandr Lototsky
Minister of Internal Affairs
In office 30 January 1918 – February 1918
Prime Minister	Vsevolod Holubovych
Preceded by	Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Succeeded by	Mykhailo Tkachenko
State Secretary
In office February 1918 – 29 April 1918
Prime Minister	Vsevolod Holubovych
Preceded by	Ivan Mirny
Personal details
Born	1890 (1890) Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire (now Russia)
Died	29 September 1941(1941-09-29) (aged 60–61) Sevvostlag, Khabarovsk Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia)
Political party	Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party (center)
Alma mater	Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
Occupation	cooperator, historian, journalist, political activist, and statesman

Pavlo Onkiiovych Khrystiuk (Ukrainian: Павло Оникійович Христюк; 1890 – 19 September 1941) was a Ukrainian cooperativist, historian, journalist, political activist, and statesman.

Biography

Khrystiuk was born in the Kuban Oblast. He studied in Kyiv 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 31 January 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 Mykhailo Hrushevsky.

From 1919 Khrystiuk immigrated 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 Shliakh 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 2 March 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 Kubijovyč. "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 the Internet Archive
• Chysnikov, V. Energetic and creative person. "Imenem zakonu".