Kushnir, Makar

Kushnir, Makar [Кушнір, Макар; Kušnir; pseudonyms: Bohush, Yakymenko, B. Dniprovy], b 10 August 1890 in Cherkasy, Kyiv gubernia, d 16 September 1951 in Pomerolle, Belgium. Political figure and journalist. He studied at Saint Petersburg University. At the beginning of the Revolution of 1917 he moved to Kyiv, where he was a delegate from the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists to the Central Rada and the Little Rada. He also contributed to the journal Nova rada (Kyiv) and the daily Trybuna. At the end of 1918 he was a member of the Ukrainian National Republic’s delegation to the Paris Peace Conference. From 1920 he lived in Vienna and then Geneva, where he wrote for the Ukrainian press, eg Volia (Vienna), and foreign press, and contributed to such nationalist publications as Rozbudova natsiï. Kushnir was also a founding member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the organization’s chief judge, and a close adviser to Yevhen Konovalets. After the Second World War he settled in Belgium.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]