{{Short description|Ukrainian bibliographer and bibliographical scholar (1904–1939)}} {{Family name hatnote|Ivanovych|Steshenko|lang=East Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Yaroslav Steshenko | native_name = Ярослав Стешенко | native_name_lang = uk | birth_name = Ярослав Іванович Стешенко<br/>Yaroslav Ivanovych Steshenko | birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|6 April|1904|24 March}} | birth_place = Kyiv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1939|03|11|1904|04|06|df=y}} | death_place = Nagaev Bay, Russian SSR, USSR (Now Russia) | occupation = {{hlist|bibliographer| bibliographical scholar|art critic}} | education = Kyiv Higher Institute of Education, 1921<br/>Kyiv National Economic University, 1930 | father = Ivan Steshenko | mother = Oksana Steshenko | relatives = Mariia Starytska (aunt)<br/>Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska (aunt)<br/>Mykhailo Starytsky (grandfather)<br/>Veronika Chernyakhivska (cousin)<br/>Mykola Lysenko (great-uncle) }}
'''Yaroslav Ivanovych Steshenko''' ({{OldStyleDate|6 April|1904|24 March}}–11 March 1939; {{langx|uk|Ярослав Іванович Стешенко}}) was a Ukrainian and Soviet bibliographer, bibliographical scholar, bibliophile and art critic.<ref name="Ковальчук">{{cite web |last1=Ковальчук |first1=Галина Іванівна |title=Стешенко Ярослав Іванович |url=https://ube.nlu.org.ua/article/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BE%20%D0%AF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%20%D0%86%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 |website=Українська бібліотечна енциклопедія |publisher=Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine |access-date=22 February 2026 |location=Kyiv, Ukraine |language=uk |date=12 December 2025 |trans-title=Steshenko Yaroslav Ivanovych}}</ref><ref name="Bilokin">{{cite web |last1=Bilokin |first1=S.I. |editor1-last=Dziuba |editor1-first=I. M. |editor2-last=Zhukovsky |editor2-first=A. I. |editor3-last=Zhelezniak |editor3-first=M. H. |title=Стешенко Ярослав Іванович |url=https://esu.com.ua/article-885303 |website=Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine |publisher=National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Shevchenko Scientific Society. |access-date=22 February 2026 |location=Kyiv |language=uk |date=2024 |trans-title=Steshenko Yaroslav Ivanovych}}</ref><ref name="Struk">{{cite book |editor1-last=Struk |editor1-first=Danylo Husar |title=Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Volume V: St–Z |date=1993 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Toronto, Ontario |isbn=9781442651272}}</ref><ref name="Мельник"/> Frequently arrested by the Soviet authorities, Steshenko died in a gulag camp and is considered part of the Executed Renaissance.<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/><ref name="Мельник">{{cite news |last1=Мельник |first1=Ярослава |title=Українотворець Ярослав Стешенко |url=https://zbruc.eu/node/109459 |access-date=23 February 2026 |work=Збруч |date=21 December 2021 |location=Lviv |language=uk}}</ref>
==Biography== Steshenko was born {{OldStyleDate|6 April|1904|24 March}} in Kyiv, Russian Empire (present-day, Ukraine) to Ivan Steshenko and Oksana Steshenko ({{nee|Starytska}}).<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/><ref name="Struk"/> Steshenko's father was a politician, literary scholar, poet, writer, translator and his mother was a children's writer, translator and teacher.<ref name="Bilokin"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Senkus |first1=Roman |title=Steshenko, Ivan M. |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CT%5CSteshenkoIvanM.htm |website=Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine |publisher=Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta |access-date=16 February 2026 |location=Edmonton, Alberta |language=en |date=2014}}</ref><ref name="Міхно">{{cite journal |last1=Міхно |first1=Олександр Петрович |title=Січень – лютий 2025. Постаті |journal=Освіта і суспільство |date=2025 |volume=1 |issue=82 |pages=36–38 |url=https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/744526/1/Міхно%20О.%20%282025%29.%20Педагогічний%20календар.%20Січень-лютий%202025.%20Постаті..pdf |access-date=15 February 2026 |trans-title=January–February 2025. Figures |language=uk}}</ref><ref name="TUW">{{cite news |title=Turning the pages back... August 29 1868 |url=https://archive.ukrweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_1994-35.pdf |access-date=15 February 2026 |work=The Ukrainian Weekly |location= Jersey City, New Jersey |volume=35 |date=28 August 1994 |page=6 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250323020901/https://archive.ukrweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_1994-35.pdf |archive-date=23 March 2025}}</ref> Steshenko was the younger brother of the actress {{ill|Iryna Steshenko|uk|Стешенко Ірина Іванівна}}.<ref name="Bilokin"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Steshenko, Oksana |url=https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CS%5CT%5CSteshenkoOksana.htm |website=Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine |publisher=Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta |access-date=15 February 2026 |location=Edmonton, Alberta |language=en |date=2001}}</ref> Through his mother Steshenko was the grandson of Mykhailo Starytsky and {{ill|Sofiia Starytska|uk|Старицька Софія Віталіївна}}, and the nephew of Mariia Starytska and Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska.<ref name="Міхно"/><ref name="TUW"/><ref name="Мельник"/> Steshenko was also the cousin of Veronika Chernyakhivska, and the great-nephew of Mykola Lysenko.<ref name="Мельник"/>
In 1918, aged 14, Steshenko witnessed the assassination of his father by members of the Red Army.<ref>{{cite web |title=1873 – народився Іван Стешенко, перший міністр освіти УНР |trans-title=1873 – Ivan Steshenko, the first Minister of Education of the UNR, was born |url=https://uinp.gov.ua/istorychnyy-kalendar/cherven/24/1873-narodyvsya-ivan-steshenko-pershyy-ministr-osvity-unr |website=Historical calendar |publisher=Ukrainian Institute of National Memory |access-date=16 February 2026 |location=Kyiv |language=uk}}</ref><ref name="Мельник"/> In 1920, Steshenko graduated from gymnasium in Kyiv.<ref name="Ковальчук"/> During this time Steshenko also attended a course in librarianship, and worked at the {{ill|Dneprosoyuz|uk|Дніпросоюз}} book warehouse from 1919 to 1920.<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/> From 1920 to 1921, Steshenko studied literary cycles at the Kyiv Higher Institute of Education.<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/> In 1930,{{efn|Also cited as 1928.<ref name="Struk"/>}} Steshenko graduated from Kyiv National Economic University.<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/>
==Career== In 1928, Steshenko became a member of the Russian Bibliographic Society at Moscow University and became a member of the Leningrad Society of Bibliophiles in 1929.<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/>
Steshenko compiled indexes of works by Heorhiy Narbut and {{ill|Sergiy Maslov|uk|Маслов Сергій Іванович}}, and co-authored a catalogue of publications of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences with {{ill|Mykola Ivanchenko|uk| Іванченко Микола Миколайович}}.<ref name="Bilokin"/><ref name="Сергій"/>
Steshenko collected bookplates, and was a corresponding member of the Leningrad Society of Bookplate Artists.<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/> Part of Steshenko's bookplate collection is housed at the Museum of Outstanding Figures of Ukrainian Culture.<ref name="Мельник"/>
==Arrests and death== In 1921, aged 17, Steshenko was arrested on charges of belonging to a counter-revolutionary youth organisation, but was later released due to lack of evidence.<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/> Steshenko was arrested in 1923 on charges of belonging to the anti-Bolshevik {{ill|Cossack Council of Right-Bank Ukraine|uk|Козача Рада Правобережної України}}, but was later released due to lack of evidence.<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/> In autumn 1929, Steshenko was imprisoned as part of the Union for the Freedom of Ukraine trial.<ref name="Bilokin"/> Steshenko plead not-guilty and was later released in 1930 due to the absence of criminal wrongdoing.<ref name="Bilokin"/> In 1933, Steshenko was arrested in Kharkiv as part of the "Archaeologists–Zhupans" ({{langx|uk|Археологів–Жупанів}}) case and was exiled to Uralsk, Kazakh SSR (present-day Oral, Kazakhstan).<ref name="Ковальчук"/> Steshenko was sentenced in 1936 to hard labor at a gulag camp in Kolyma.<ref name="Ковальчук"/>
On 11 March 1939 Steshenko died aged 34 at a gulag camp in Nagaev Bay.<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/><ref name="Мельник"/> Steshenko was posthumously rehabilitated in September 1956.<ref name="Ковальчук"/><ref name="Bilokin"/>
==Legacy== A compilation of Steshenko's letters by Yevhen Pshenichny was published as ''{{ill|Yaroslav Steshenko: Epistolary Monologue|uk| Ярослав Стешенко: епістолярний монолог}}'' in 2020.<ref name="Мельник"/>
==Publications== * Steshenko, Yaroslav (1926) ''Heorhii Narbut: Posthumous Exhibition of Works'', T. Shevchenko All-Ukraine Historical Museum. Kyiv: Derzhvydav Ukraїny.<ref name="Bilokin"/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mudrak |first1=M. M. |title=Ukrainian Ex Libris in the Slavonic Library in Prague |journal=Slavic & East European Information Resources |date=2017 |volume=18 |issue=3–4 |pages=185–202 |doi=10.1080/15228886.2017.1393261 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15228886.2017.1393261 |access-date=23 February 2026}}</ref> * {{cite book |last1=Ivanchenko |first1=M. |last2=Peretz |first2=V. |last3=Steshenko |first3=Y. |title=Sergiy Maslov 1902–1927 |date=1927 |publisher=Ukrainian Scientific Institute of Book Studies |location=Kyiv}} <ref name="Сергій">{{cite web |title=Сергій Маслов 1902–1927 |url=http://irbis-nbuv.gov.ua/dlib/item/0002165 |website=Digital Library of Historical and Cultural Heritage |publisher=Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine |access-date=23 February 2026}}</ref> * {{cite book |last1=Steshenko |first1=Yaroslabv |last2=Ivanchenko |first2=M. |title=Systematic Catalog of Publications of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1918–1929' |date=1930 |publisher=All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences |location=Kyiv |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001177152}}
===Unpublished=== * ''Bibliography of Ukrainian Bibliography and Bibliology'' <ref name="Bilokin"/> * ''Bibliography of the History of Ukrainian Printing'' (1925) <ref name="Bilokin"/> * ''Bibliographic Index of Books Printed in Ukrainian on the Territory of Russia in 1798–1916'' {{efn|A version of which is held at the Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.<ref name="Мельник"/>}}<ref name="Bilokin"/>
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