Background
Serhiy Okhrimenko was born in the village of Palchik, Zvenigorodka uyezd of the Kiev Governorate. He was born in a family of the Eastern Orthodox priest.
Serhiy Okhrimenko was born in the village of Palchik, Zvenigorodka uyezd of the Kiev Governorate. He was born in a family of the Eastern Orthodox priest.
In 1891-1896 studied at Kievan Theological Seminary, later graduated from the Faculty of Law of Kiev University.
Yefremov is his literary pseudonym, his real name is Okhrimenko. Today the village still stands, but in Katerynopil Raion of the Cherkasy Oblast, the central Ukraine. In 1905 became the leader of the Ukrainian Social Union (USU) Peasant Union.
He worked in the variety of Ukrainian periodicals such as Zoria, Pravda, Kievan Past, Ukraina et cetera
In 1885-1918 he was the head of publishing Vik. He was arrested numerous times by the Russian authorities for pressing public speeches in defense of national culture and political freedoms in pre-revolutionary period.
In March 1917 Okhrimenko entered the staff of the Central Rada. On June 15, 1917 became the general secretary of the International Affairs in the newly formed Ukrainian government, General Secretary of the Ukrainian People"s Republic.
From September 1917 heads the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists.
From April 1918 and until 1920 he did not hold any official positions. With the installation of Soviet power in Ukraine was forced to go into the illegal situation and hiding. In spring 1919, at the request of the Ukrainian Academy of Science, he was amnestied.
From 1922 until 1928, he was one of the leaders of the Ukrainian Academy of Science.
He was the chief defendant in the 1929 public show trial of the leaders of the supposed Union for the Liberation of Ukraine. In 1930, he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was later commuted to ten years in prison.
He died in 1939 while in Vladimir Central Prison.
Political activity started during student years becoming the member of the Ukrainian Universal non-Party Democratic Organization. On July 17, 1917 he was replaced by Oleksandr Shulhyn from the same political party.
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He was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Science (1919) and Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. In April 1917, at the Ukrainian National Congress was elected as the deputy of the Head of the Rada and the member of the Mala Rada.