Yulian Bachynsky
| Yulian Bachynsky Юліан Бачинський | |
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| The head of the diplomatic mission of Ukraine to the United States | |
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In office 1919–1921 | |
| President | Symon Petliura |
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| Born |
March 28, 1870 Ternopil region |
| Died | 1940 |
| Alma mater | Lviv University |
Yulian Bachynsky (born March 28, 1870, Novosilka, Ternopil region – died 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
After Yulian Bachynsky graduated from Lviv University's Law School, he embarked on a political and journalistic career.
Career
Yulian Bachynsky joined the Radical Party in 1890, 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 US, he stayed in Austria and Germany until 1934 and then decided to move to the USSR. He lived in Kharkiv, editing 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 in the Republic of Karelia. He is author of "Ukraina Irredenta".
External links
- Memorandum to the government of the United States on the recognition of the Ukrainian people's republic
- Yulian Bachynsky’s struggle for Ukrainian independence
- THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT
- The Spirit of Statehood. An unrealized project of Ukrainian conservatism