Yuri Hasenko

Yuri Hasenko Юрій Гасенко
Ambassador of Ukraine to Romania
In office 1919–1920
Preceded by	Volodyslav Dashkevych-Horbatsky
Succeeded by	Kostiantyn Matsiyevych
Personal details
Born	1894 (1894)
Died	1933 (aged 38–39)
Party	Paris

Yuri Hasenko (Ukrainian: Юрій Гасенко; 1894 – 1933) was a Ukrainian diplomat, journalist, and writer. He was member of the Union of Ukrainian Journalists and Writers in Vienna.

Professional career and experience

In 1917 – he was personal Adjutant General Secretary of Military Affairs Symon Petliura. The following year – a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the peace negotiations in Brest. 14 December 1917, General Secretariat of the Ukrainian People's Republic issued mandate to Yuri Hasenko to perform special mission abroad. He managed to carry out a number of important events of diplomatic and intelligence character in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, London, Rome, Washington and some other capitals. In 1919–1920 – he was associate Ukrainian Embassy in Romania. Then in exile in Germany and Czechoslovakia. On 11 March 1920 – he was chairman of the Ukrainian national flying club in Vienna.

Authored works

A 1919 caricature related to the Paris Peace Conference by Hasenko

• Ist Cholmland polnisch oder ukrainisch? Lausanne, 1918 (Le Pays du Cholm. Est il polonais ou ukrainien? Lausanne, 1918).
• Les Etats-Unis de la Mer Noire. Vienne-Bucarest, 1918.
• Feuille à ajouter au Dictionnaire encyclopédique Larousse, page 1630, au mot Ukraine d'après les dernières données de la science. Bucarest, 1919.
• A qui doit appartenir la Bucovine? (1919)
• La République Ukrainienne, son histoire, sa géographie et sa vie économique. Bucarest, 1919 (Republica Ucrainiasă. Teritoriul, populația, viața economică. București, 1919).
• Die Ukraina in ihren ethnographischen Grenzen. Wien, [o.J.]
• L'Ukraine, carte comparative géographique, écomomique, étnographique. Bucarest, 1919
• The Republic of Ukraine (1919)

External links

• The centre of defence intelligence history.
• The history of Ukraine's modern foreign service
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Edited by Volodymyr Kubijovyc. Paris—New-York, 1955