Serafima Hopner

Serafima Hopner Серафима Іллівна Гопнер
Leader of Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine
In office September 9, 1918 – October 23, 1918
Preceded by	Georgiy Pyatakov
Succeeded by	Emanuel Kviring
Personal details
Born	April 7, 1880 Kherson, Russian Empire
Died	March 25, 1966 (aged 85) Moscow, Soviet Union
Alma mater	University of Paris

Serafima Hopner (Russian: Серафима Ильинична Гопнер; 1880–1966) was a Bolshevik politician, a Hero of Socialist Labor (1960), and a Doctor of Historical Sciences (1934).

Beginning in 1905, she was a member, and then a secretary of the Bolshevik party in Yekaterinoslav. In 1910-1917, she lived in emigration. From September 9 to October 23, 1918, she was the secretary of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine. In 1928-1938 she worked for the Comintern. Beginning in 1945, she was an employee of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism in Moscow.^[1]

References

1. Andrzej Chojnowski, Jan Jacek Bruski, Ukraina, Wydawnictwo TRIO, Warszawa 2006, p. 378, ISBN 978-83-7436-039-5