Yulian Bachynsky

Yulian Bachynsky
Юліан Бачинський
The head of the diplomatic mission of Ukraine to the United States
In office
1919–1921
President Symon Petliura
Personal details
Born March 28, 1870
Ternopil region
Died 1940
Alma mater Lviv University

Yulian Bachynsky (birth: March 28, 1870, Novosilka, Ternopil region - † 1940, Republic of Karelia / Leningrad region) is a Ukrainian diplomat. In 1919 he attempted to implement his idea of an independent Ukraine and went to Washington to obtain the US government’s recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

Education

Yulian Bachynsky graduated from Lviv University’s Law School, Bachynsky embarked on a political and journalistic career.

Career

Yulian Bachynsky in 1890 he joined the Radical Party, where he led its social-democratic wing. As early as 1899 Yulian Bachynsky was one of the co-founders of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party. After the failure of his mission in USA, he stayed in Austria and Germany until 1934 and then decided to move to the USSR. He living in Kharkiv, he the editing of the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia until his arrest on the trumped-up charge of membership in the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine. Sentenced to a ten-year term, he died in a prison camp in 1940, Republic of Karelia. Autor «Ukraina Irredenta».

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