Name Valentyn Sadovsky Nationality Ukrainian | Succeeded by Serhiy Shelukhin Preceded by position created Role Politician | |
Born 1886
Plishchyn, Volhynia Governorate ( 1886 ) Political party Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, Ukrainian Social Democratic Labor Party Alma mater Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute Died November 24, 1947, Lukyanivska Prison, Kiev, Ukraine Education Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology Party Revolutionary Ukrainian Party | ||
Prime Minister Volodymyr Vynnychenko | ||
Valentyn Sadovsky (Ukrainian: Валентин Васильович Садовський) was a politician, scientist, journalist, economist of Ukraine. He was a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (1935) and the Ukrainian Science Institute in Warsaw.
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Sadovsky was born in village of Plishchyn (today in Shepetivka Raion), Volhynia Governorate in a family of priest. He graduated from the Ostroh gymnasium and later the law school of Kiev University. In 1909 Sadovsky enrolled to the economical college of Saint Petersburg Polytechnic Institute. Since 1904 he is a member of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party and after its split stayed with members of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labor Party. In 1907 Sadovsky was arrested for correspondence with social democratic organizations.
In March 1917 he was elected to the Central Council of Ukraine and soon to its Little Council. On June 28, 1917 Sadovsky was appointed a Secretary of Court Affairs (Justice). He also served as a deputy chairman of the General Secretariat of Ukraine along with Serhiy Yefremov. After the Hetman coup-d'etat, he participated in peace negotiations with the Russian delegation, while being a member of the underground "Ukrainian National Union".
In October 1920 Sadovsky was entrusted with the position of a minister of Labor which he kept for the next two years. In November 1920 along with the rest of government emigrated to Poland and later Czechoslovakia.
In May 1945 Sadovsky was arrested by military counter-intelligence of the 1st Ukrainian Front in Prague. He was charged with publishing anti-Soviet works, which could have resulted up to 10 years imprisonment or capital punishment. Over two years Sadovsky was awaiting for the sentence before being killed by criminals of the Lukianivka Prison on November 24, 1947.