Vasyl Poraiko

Vasily Ivanovic Porayko (Ukrainian: Василь Іванович Порайко; 12 October 1888, Ustea, now in Sniatyn Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine - 25 October 1937) was a Ukrainian Soviet politician and lawyer.

Life
He studied at Chernivtsi University and Lviv University, graduating in 1914. On the outbreak of World War I he was recruited into the Austro-Hungarian Army, but was captured by the Russians in 1915. He supported the October Revolution of 1917 and in 1919 was sent to Ukraine, where he took part in the foundation of the Ukrainian SSR, acting as its second Prosecutor General from 1927 to 1930.