Borys Martos

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Borys Martos
Борис Мартос
Volodymyr Chekhivsky
Preceded byG. Glinka
(Ukrainian State)
Succeeded byI. Feschenko-Chopivsky
(as Minister of Economy)
Secretary of Agrarian Affairs
In office
28 June 1917 – 14 August 1917
Prime MinisterVolodymyr Vynnychenko
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byM. Savchenko-Bilsky
Personal details
Born(1879-05-20)20 May 1879
Pedagogue

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

Halychyna
.

He was arrested three times for collaboration with the

Kyiv Commercial Institute, and had established the Kyiv Cooperative Institute
.

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

  1. ^ "Мартос Борис Миколайович".
  2. ^ Profile of Borys Martos
  3. ^ "Borys Martos, Ex‐Leader of Independent Ukraine". The New York Times. 23 September 1977.

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Records
Preceded by Oldest living state leader
9 February 1974 – 22 March 1978
Succeeded by