Stepanenko, Oleksander

Stepanenko, Oleksander [Степаненко, Олександер], b 6 June 1873 in Yaroshiv, Kremenchuk county, Poltava gubernia, d 1924 in Siberia, RSFSR. Co-operative and political leader. He joined the Revolutionary Ukrainian party (1900) and then the Ukrainian People's party (1902). After the February Revolution of 1917 he became a member of the executive committee of Kyiv gubernia, a representative of co-operatives in the Central Rada, and a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Independentists. Under the Directory of the Ukrainian National Republic he was sent on an economic mission to Vienna. In 1922 he returned to Ukraine. During the Stalinist terror he was sent to a labor camp in Siberia. His further fate is unknown.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]