Mikhail Mikhailik

Mykhailo Mykhailyk (Ukrainian: Михайло Васильович Михайлик; 7 (19) October 1889 – 10 March 1937 in Kiev) was a politician and lawyer of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

He was born in Aleksandrovka, Slavyanoserbsk County, Yekaterinoslav Governorate (now Oleksandrivsk, Luhansk Oblast) as Yosyp Abramovych in to a Jewish family.

In 1918 Mykhailyk worked in the Ministry of Land Melioration of the Ukrainian State.

During that time he was a member of the left-wing Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries (before adaptation of Communist-Borotbists).

He was tried by a court chaired by Vasiliy Ulrikh and shot in 1937, but he was rehabilitated in September 1956.

Photo footage of Mykhailyk during the " SVU process "