Sviatoslav Shramchenko

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Oleksandrovych and the family name is Shramchenko.

Sviatoslav Shramchenko
Native name	Святослав Шрамченко
Born	(1893-05-03)May 3, 1893 Baku, Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan)
Died	June 24, 1958(1958-06-24) (aged 65) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Allegiance	Ukrainian People's Republic
Service / branch	Ukrainian People's Army (Navy)
Years of service	1916—1921
Rank	Captain lieutenant
Battles / wars	First World War Ukrainian–Soviet War

Sviatoslav Oleksandrovych Shramchenko (May 3, 1893 – June 24, 1958) was a Ukrainian military and community leader, captain lieutenant of the Ukrainian People's Republic Navy, writer and famous philatelist (had a collection of 16,000 stamps). He was a son of Oleksandr Shramchenko, Ukrainian ethnographer.

Biography

Sviatoslav Shramchenko was born in Baku (Azerbaijan, Russian Empire) on May 3, 1893. He graduated from first classical school in Kyiv, then Gardes de la Marine School and the Military Law Academy in Petrograd.

After the First World War Shramchenko became one of founders of the Navy Ukrainian People's Republic and Ukrainian State. In 1917 he was a participant of ukrainization in the Baltic Fleet. At the time of the Hetmanate and the Directorate he was a permanent adjutant of the marine ministers, in 1919 Shramchenko for some time acted as Minister of Marine.

After the end of Ukrainian War of Independence Sviatoslav Shramchenko immigrated to Częstochowa (Poland), where he was a head of various Ukrainian organizations. In 1957, he left Poland and settled in Philadelphia, US. Here he wrote a lot of articles and publications on naval and military themes in different magazines.

On June 24, 1958, Shramchenko died of a heart attack. He was buried at Orthodox Cemetery in South Bound Brook.

External links

• Kubijovyč, Volodymyr, ed. (1963). Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopædia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-3105-6.
• Шрамченко Святослав Archived June 27, 2020, at the Wayback Machine // Довідник з історії України / За ред. І. З. Підкови, Р. М. Шуста; Інст. історичних досліджень Львівського нац. унів. ім. Івана Франка. — Київ: Генеза, 2001. — ISBN 966-504-439-7. (in Ukrainian)