Pisniachevsky, Dmytro

Pisniachevsky, Dmytro [Піснячевський, Дмитро; Pisnjačevs'kyj], b 22 January 1898 in Podilia gubernia, d 12 January 1966 in Paris. Economist and co-operative leader. He left Ukraine in 1920 and lived as an émigré in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and France (from 1927). Until 1939 he was the representative in France of the Audit Union of Ukrainian Co-operatives. He wrote articles on economic topics and co-operative movement for the Ukrainian, French, and Czech press. He also wrote the monograph Vid kapitalizmu do kooperatyzmu (From Capitalism to Co-operativism, 1945).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]