10 Facts About Mykola Porsh

Mykola Volodymyrovych Porsh was a political and civil activist of Ukraine, economist, member of the Russian Constituent Assembly.

Mykola Porsh was a prominent activist of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party and the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party.

Mykola Porsh was born on 19 October 1879 in Lubny into a German-Jewish noble family.

Mykola Porsh studied at the Lubny Gymnasium and later the Kyiv University of St Vladimir.

In 1905 as the party's chairman Mykola Porsh replaced Dmytro Antonovych with whom he previously published newspaper "Pratsia".

Mykola Porsh wanted to create new edition of the party's statute changing it from a peasantry orientation to more of workers.

In 1917 Mykola Porsh was elected to the Central Council of Ukraine and in November 1917 he was appointed as the General Secretary of Military Affairs.

On 27 July 1918, along with Symon Petliura, Mykola Porsh was arrested as a representative of leftist movements that were involved with created at the People's Administrations Society an organization, goal of which was an armed revolt to overthrow the existing government of the Ukrainian State.

Mykola Porsh died on 16 April 1944 and was buried in Berlin.

Mykola Porsh translated in the Ukrainian language the first volume of the Das Kapital by Karl Marx.