Oleksandr Shramchenko

Who was Oleksandr Shramchenko?

Oleksandr Mykolayovych Shramchenko was a cultural activist and ethnographer whose heritage takes roots in the lands of Chernihiv.

In 1887, he finished the Historical-Theological department of the Kiev University. Until 1909, he gave lectures in regions of the Caucasus mountains and lands of Chelm where he was collecting folkloric evidences. After that Oleksandr moved to Kiev where he became a member of the Scientific Society. His works were published in the magazine Kiev Old Times. Later he became an editor of other magazines and journals such as Ukraine and Ukrainian Ethnographic Collection. From 1919, Shramchenko was a secretary of the All-People's Library Committee of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Science. He also translated works of Vladimir Antonovich.