Prykhodko, Viktor

Prykhodko, Viktor [Приходько, Віктор; Pryxod'ko], b 31 January 1886 in Kniazhpil, Kamianets-Podilskyi county, Podilia gubernia, d 6 February 1982 in New York. Lawyer and civic and cultural figure. After graduating from the law faculty of Kyiv University (1912) he worked as court investigator at the Podilia circuit court. As head of the education department of the Podilia gubernia zemstvo in 1917, he Ukrainianized the gubernia’s public school system. In 1918 and 1919 he was elected president of the gubernial zemstvo. After leaving Ukraine in 1920, he served in the Government-in-exile of the Ukrainian National Republic and was a lecturer at the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady. In 1929 he proposed to convene an All-Ukrainian National Congress and to introduce a national tax among émigrés. In 1949 he emigrated to the United States of America, and thereafter he worked at the head office of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, for 10 years. Besides contributing articles to the Ukrainian press he published his memoirs as Pid sontsem Podillia (Under Podilia’s Sun, 1927; repr 1931 and 1948). Excerpts of his diaries were published in Lviv in 2020 under the title Velykyi iskhod: Uryvky zi shchodennyka, roky 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 (The Great Exodus: Excerpts from Diaries; Years 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948).

[This article was updated in 2026.]