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 (1880-04-07)April 7, 1880
Kherson, Russian Empire
Died March 25, 1966(1966-03-25) (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
Party political offices
Preceded by
Yuri Pyatakov
1st Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine
19181918
Succeeded by
Emanuil Kviring


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