# Pardoning of the Professors in Kyiv

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/pardoning-of-the-professors-in-kyiv/
- Published: 1924-05-25T19:15:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T14:55:19+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/pamilavannie-prafesarou-u-kijevie.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/pomilovaniye-profyessorov-v-kiyevye.md

> The Ukrainian government commuted the death sentence of the Kyiv professors to ten years in prison and shortened the terms of the other convicts. The authorities explain this by the organization's weak influence.

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The Soviet government of Ukraine has pardoned the Kyiv professors Chebakov, Yedinevsky and Yakovlev, as well as Vinogradova, who had been sentenced to death, replacing the death penalty with ten years in prison. The sentences of the other defendants convicted in the case of the counter-revolutionary organization "центр действия" ("Center of Action") have been reduced by half. The authorities explain this by saying that the organization's activity could not have done serious harm to the U.S.S.R., because of the hostile attitude toward it on the part of the peasants, the workers and the Ukrainian and Russian intelligentsia.