Omelchenko, Mariia [Омельченко, Марія; Omel'čenko, Marija], b 4 August 1874 in Sloboda Bondareva, Bohuchar county, Voronezh gubernia, d 1946 in Prague. Educator and civic leader. While working in the Kuban during the revolutionary period of 1917–19, she was active politically and was a member of the Kuban Territorial Council. In 1920 she settled in Prague, where she served as president of the Ukrainian Women’s Union in Czechoslovakia (1926–7) and maintained contacts with southern Slavic women’s organizations. In 1933 she was a coeditor of the journal La Femme slave. She wrote books about her 1934 visit to Yugoslavia (1935) and Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1929) as well as a number of pamphlets.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993).]