Vasyl Poraiko

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovych and the family name is Poraiko.

Vasyl Poraiko
Василь Порайко
Poraiko in 1927
People's Commissar for Justice
In office 5 March 1927 – 10 July 1930
Chairman	Vlas Chubar
Preceded by	Mykola Skrypnyk
Succeeded by	Vasiliy Polyakov
Personal details
Born	(1888-10-12)12 October 1888 Ustia [uk], Galicia-Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
Died	25 October 1937(1937-10-25) (aged 49)
Party	All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik)
Alma mater	Chernivtsi University University of Lviv

Vasyl Ivanovych Poraiko (Ukrainian: Василь Іванович Порайко; 12 October 1888 – 25 October 1937) was a Ukrainian Soviet bureaucrat and lawyer.

Biography

He studied at Chernivtsi University and Lviv University, graduating in 1914. On the outbreak of World War I he was recruited into the Austro-Hungarian Army, but was captured by the Russians in 1915. He supported the October Revolution of 1917 and in 1919 was sent to Ukraine, where he took part in the foundation of the Ukrainian SSR, acting as its second Prosecutor General from 1927 to 1930 and People's Commissar of Justice.

He was arrested by the NKVD charges of participation in the "bourgeois-nationalist anti-Soviet organization of the former Borotbists" and "the Ukrainian Military Organization". He was shot in October 1937 and posthumously rehabilitated in 1957.^[1]

References

1. "Senkiv Mikhailo, Duminets Ivan: From the history of struggle for the unity of the Ukrainian lands 1917–1945 rr". Archived from the original on 6 April 2016.

Sources

• http://ruthenia.info/txt/vidrodzhenia/dumynetsi/ Archived 2016-04-06 at the Wayback Machine