Borys Martos
Borys Martos | |
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Борис Мартос | |
Volodymyr Chekhivsky | |
Preceded by | G. Glinka (Ukrainian State) |
Succeeded by | I. Feschenko-Chopivsky (as Minister of Economy) |
Secretary of Agrarian Affairs | |
In office 28 June 1917 – 14 August 1917 | |
Prime Minister | Volodymyr Vynnychenko |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | M. Savchenko-Bilsky |
Personal details | |
Born | Pedagogue | 20 May 1879
Borys Mykolayovych Martos (Ukrainian: Борис Миколайович Мартос; 20 May 1879 – 19 September 1977)[1][2] was a Ukrainian politician, pedagogue, and economist who briefly served as Chairman of People's Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic from April to August 1919.
Biography
Martos was born in Gradizhsk, in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire, into a noble family of the Ossorya coat of arms.
Martos graduated from
He was arrested three times for collaboration with the
Under the Directorate of Ukraine, he served as the chairman of the Council of People's Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic from 9 April to 27 August 1919. In 1917-1918 Martos was a member of the Central Rada and the Secretary of Agrarian Affairs. In 1918 he also was heading the All-Ukrainian Cooperative Committee.
In 1920 Martos emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where he used to teach in the Ukrainian management Academy in Prague. He died on 19 September 1977, and is buried in New Jersey, United States.[3]
References
- ^ "Мартос Борис Миколайович".
- ^ Profile of Borys Martos
- ^ "Borys Martos, Ex‐Leader of Independent Ukraine". The New York Times. 23 September 1977.
External links
- Borys Martos at Encyclopedia of Ukraine.com (in English)
- Biography at the government portal of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)