Education
After Yulian Bachynsky graduated from Lviv University"s Law School, he embarked on a political and journalistic career.
After Yulian Bachynsky graduated from Lviv University"s Law School, he embarked on a political and journalistic career.
In 1919 he attempted to implement his idea of an independent Ukraine and went to Washington to obtain the United States government"s recognition of the Ukrainian People"s Republic. Yulian Bachynsky joined the Radical Party in 1890, where he led its social-democratic wing. As early as 1899 Yulian Bachynsky was one of the co-founders of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party.
After the failure of his mission in United States, he stayed in Austria and Germany until 1934 and then decided to move to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He lived in Kharkiv, editing the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia until his arrest on the trumped-up charge of membership in the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine.
Sentenced to a ten-year term, he died in a prison camp in 1940 in the Republic of Karelia. He is author of "Ukraina Irredenta".
