Alexander Shumsky

Alexander Shumsky
Олександр Шумський
Shumsky in December of 1920 (photo from Newspaper "Den")
People's Commissar for Education
In office
10 July 1919 – August 1919
Prime MinisterChristian Rakovsky
Preceded byMykhailo Panchenko
Succeeded byVolodymyr Zatonskyi
In office
29 September 1924 – February 1927
Prime MinisterVlas Chubar
Preceded byVolodymyr Zatonskyi
Succeeded byMykola Skrypnyk
Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland
In office
April 1921 – February 1923
LeaderFeliks Kon (acting)
Dmitry Manuilsky
Preceded byMieczysław Łoganowski
Succeeded byGrigory Bessedowsky
(provisional)
Full member of the 3rd, 4th Politburo
In office
23 March – 23 November 1920
Full member of the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th Orgburo
In office
15 April – 23 November 1920
In office
20 June 1923 – 3 March 1927
Full member of the 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th Central Committee
In office
17 March 1920 – 13 December 1921
In office
16 May 1924 – 3 March 1927
Candidate member of the 7th Central Committee
In office
10 April 1923 – 12 May 1924
Director of Agitprop
In office
May – September 1924
Personal details
Born
Oleksandr Yakovych Shumsky

(1890-12-02)December 2, 1890
Turchynka, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire
Died18 September 1946(1946-09-18) (aged 55)
near Saratov, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityUkrainian
Political partyCP(b)U (1920-1933)
UKP (b) (1918-1920)
UPSR (1914-1918)
Spilka (1908-1914)
Alma materMoscow Veterinary School
Shanyavsky Moscow Free University
Occupationrevolutionary, politician, Communist ideologist
Military service
AllegianceRussian Empire (1916-1917)
RKKA (1918-1921)
Years of service1916-1921
CommandsSouth Western Front (Russian Empire)
12th Army (RKKA)

Alexander Yakovlevich Shumsky or Oleksandr Yakovych Shumskyi (Ukrainian: Олександр Якович Шумський, Russian: Александр Яковлевич Шумский; 2 December 1890 – 18 September 1946) was a Ukrainian communist and activist. He was one of the leaders of the national communism movement in Ukraine and actively supported Ukrainization. He was one of the victims of the Stalinist regime, being arrested and killed by the NKVD in 1946. He was rehabilitated in 1958, during the period of De-Stalinization.


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