27 Facts About Mykola Skrypnyk

Mykola Skrypnyk was the Head of the Ukrainian People's Commissariat, equivalent to the modern-day position of Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Originally a member of the Saint Petersburg Hromada society, Mykola Skrypnyk became a member of "Workers' Banner", part of the Marxist social democratic movement, in 1897.

Mykola Skrypnyk joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898.

Mykola Skrypnyk was arrested between fifteen and seventeen times, exiled seven times, and at one point was sentenced to death.

Mykola Skrypnyk escaped from his first exile in the Yakut region, then worked as a social-democratic organizer and propagandist in Tsaritsyn, Saratov, Samara and Yekaterinburg, Odesa and Katerynoslav, from which he was exiled for five years to the Kem district of the Arkhangelsk Governate.

Mykola Skrypnyk escaped on the way to his exile and moved to Odesa.

Mykola Skrypnyk was elected as a delegate to the 3rd London Congress of the RSDLP in that year.

Mykola Skrypnyk was arrested and sent to Turukhansk, from which he soon escaped, having covered 1,200 versts, or an equivalent number of kilometers, by boat and on foot.

Mykola Skrypnyk was arrested and spent three months in a Moscow prison.

Mykola Skrypnyk returned from exile at the end of 1913.

In 1913, Mykola Skrypnyk was an editor of the Bolsheviks' legal magazine Issues of Insurance and in 1914 was a member of the editorial board of the Pravda newspaper, while working for Iskra.

Mykola Skrypnyk used the party pseudonyms Glasson, Peterburzhets, Valerian, H Yermolaev, Shchur, and Schensky.

In December 1917, Mykola Skrypnyk was elected in absentia to the first Bolshevik government of Ukraine, the so-called People's Secretariat, in Kharkiv as the People's Secretary of Labor.

At the so-called Taganrog meeting, Mykola Skrypnyk was elected secretary of the Organizational Bureau for the 1st Congress of the Central Committee of the CPU at its first congress held in Moscow, where he was the main speaker.

Mykola Skrypnyk was a leader in the so-called Kyiv faction of the Ukrainian Bolsheviks, the independentists, sensitive to the issue of nationality, and promoting a separate Ukrainian Bolshevik party, while members of the predominantly Russian Katerynoslav faction preferred joining the All-Russian Communist Party in Moscow, according to Lenin's internationalist doctrine.

Mykola Skrypnyk returned to Ukraine, where he was a special commissioner of the Defense Council for combating the insurgent movement and led the suppression of the rebellion of Danylo Terpylo.

Mykola Skrypnyk later served as People's Commissar of Worker-Peasant Inspection and Internal Affairs.

Mykola Skrypnyk was Commissar of Justice between 1922 and 1927 and the Commissar of Education of the USSR from March 7,1927 to February 28,1933.

Mykola Skrypnyk was a member of the executive committee of the Communist International from September 1,1928 to July 7,1933.

Mykola Skrypnyk was appointed head of the Ukrainian Commissariat of Education in 1927.

Mykola Skrypnyk convinced the Central Committee of the CPU to introduce the policy of Ukrainization, encouraging Ukrainian culture and literature.

Mykola Skrypnyk convened an international Orthographic Conference in Kharkiv in 1927, hosting delegates from Soviet and western Ukraine.

Mykola Skrypnyk gave public testimony against "nationalist deviations" such as writer Mykola Khvylovy's literary independence movement, political anticentralism represented by former Borotbist Oleksandr Shumsky, and Mykhailo Volobuev's criticism of Soviet economic policies which made Ukraine dependent on Russia.

From February to July 1933, Mykola Skrypnyk headed the Ukrainian State Planning Commission, became a member of the Politburo of the CPU and served on the Executive Committee organizing the Communist International, as well as leading the CPU's delegation to the Comintern.

Mykola Skrypnyk's first wife, Maria Skrypnyk was a Bolshevik from pre-revolutionary times, a member of the Krasnoyarsk organization of the RSDLP, where they met.

Mykola Skrypnyk moved to Moscow, where she worked as an engineer of the prescription commission of "Aniltrest".

In 1938, she was arrested again and executed on August 20,1938, and her son Mykola Skrypnyk was sent to an orphanage; he died at the front during the war.