User:Obolonska56/Dmytro Barchenko

Dmytro Barchenko is a doctor and public figure. Participant of the liberation struggle, military doctor of the UPR army.

Biography
In the 1920s, he immigrated to Poland and lived in Volyn.

In 1931, he arrived via Shanghai to Harbin, where he worked as a doctor and became one of the main figures in Ukrainian public life.

In 1933, he became the head of the Ukrainian Political Center (the political leadership of the local Ukrainian colony, designed to serve as the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile).

He was the 1st head of the provisional administration (1933-34) and the head of the Board (1935) of the Ukrainian National House in Harbin.

One of the organizers and the 1st chairman of the Union of Ukrainian Emigrants in Manchuria (1933-35), the secret society "Prosvita" in Harbin (1934).

One of the organizers of the Ukrainian National Colony in Manchuria and the first chairman of its Council (1935-36).

In 1933-37, he edited the Ukrainian Life page in the Russian-language newspaper Harbinskoe Vremia. He collaborated with the Ukrainian newspapers Manchurian Herald (Harbin, 1932) and Ukrainian Voice in the Far East (Shanghai, 1941-44)."

He translated Chinese poetry into Ukrainian. In the 2nd half of the 1930s, he moved to Xinjing, the capital of Manchuria, where he had a medical practice. He died there during the Second World War.