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Oksana Yakivna Meshko (Ukrainian: Оксана Якiвна Мешко, 30 January 1905 — 2 January 1991) was a Ukrainian human rights activist and Soviet dissident who on 9 November 1976 became one of the co-founders of the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords, colloquially known as the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Meshko was born in 1905 in Stari Sanzhary, currently Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. Her father was executed in 1920 in the aftermath of the Civil war. Meshko graduated in 1931 with chemistry degree in Dnipropetrovsk. During the studies, she married Fedir Serhiienko, they had two sons, Yevhen and Oleksandr (Oles). Her husband was jailed in 1935, released in 1936 but could not find a job in Dnipropetrovsk and moved to Tambov. In 1937 Meshko, who was working in the chemical lab of an agricultural institute, lost her job and moved with the children to Tambov. During the war, her son Yevhen was killed by a bomb, and her husband was mobilized and returned as a disabled person. In 1944, the family moved to Kyiv. In 1947, Meshko and her sister Vira were arrested and charged with the preparation of an assassination attempt of Nikita Khrushchev, then the First…