Volodymyr Chekhivskyi

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Volodymyr Chekhivskyi
Володимир Чехівський
Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers
In office 26 December 1918 – 11 February 1919
Directorate Chairman	Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Preceded by	Sergei Gerbel [uk]
Succeeded by	Serhiy Ostapenko
Member of the Russian Constituent Assembly
In office 18 January 1918 – 19 January 1918
Constituency	Kherson
Personal details
Born	(1876-07-19)19 July 1876 Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Republic of Karelia , Russia)
Political party	Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (1902–1904) Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party (1904–1919) Ukrainian Communist Party (from 1920)
Relations	Oleksa Chupryna-Chekhivskyi [uk] (brother)
Alma mater	Kiev Theological Academy

Volodymyr Musiiovych Chekhivskyi (Ukrainian: Володимир Мусійович Чехівський; 19 July 1876 – 3 November 1937) was a Ukrainian activist and politician who served as Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic from December 1918 to February 1919. Previously, he was a member of the Russian State Duma and Russian Constituent Assembly. Chekhivskyi was also among the founders of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, and the brother of conductor and singer Oleksa Chupryna-Chekhivskyi [uk].

Early life and career

Chekhivskyi was born on 19 July 1876, to the family of a

From 1901 to 1905 Cherkhivsky worked as Deputy Inspector of the seminaries of Kyiv and Kamianets-Podilskyi. Because of his activity and interest in Ukrainian nationalism at the seminaries, Chekhivskyi was dismissed and transferred to the Cherkasy Oblast.^[1] From 1905 to 1906 he was a teacher of Russian language as well as of the History of Literature and the Theory of Philology at the Cherkassy Theology College.

Between 1902 and 1904 Chekhivskyi was a member of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, after which he switched to the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party (USDLP) until 1919. In 1906, he was elected to the Imperial Duma, however the Russian government exiled him, as a Ukrainian to Vologda in Russia. However, through the efforts of his electors to the Imperial Duma, he was returned from exile after one year.

From 1908 to 1917 Chekhivskyi lived in Odesa where he taught in a gymnasium as well as commercial and technical colleges. During that time he was under open police surveillance. Nonetheless, Chekhivskyi participated in the activities of a local Ukrainian Hromada and Prosvita association. Since 1915 he was a member of a masonic lodge "Star of the East" that existed in Odesa and was part of the Great East of Peoples of Russia.

Revolutionary years

After the February Revolution Chekhivskyi became editor of the "Ukrayinske Slovo" newspaper that was published in Odesa. From April 1917 he headed the Odesa committee of the USDLP and the Ukrainian council of Odesa. From May 1917 Cherkhivsky was a district inspector of the Odesa School Council and headed the Odesa branch of All-Ukrainian Teachers Union. From June 1917 he was a deputy (glasny) in the Odesa city duma from the Ukrainian parties, and headed the Kherson Governorate Council of united public organization.

In October–November 1917 Chekhivskyi was a member of the

From Directorate to its opposition

Chekhivskyi headed the Ukrainian

Chekhivskyi followed leftist political views, advocated compromise with Bolsheviks, opposed the treaty with Entente. On those issues his position was similar to the point of view of Volodymyr Vynnychenko. Chekhivskyi had a little influence on the army of Ukraine. After failing to reach an agreement with Bolsheviks, successful offensive of the Red Army and willingness of the Ukrainian leadership to negotiate with French led to resignation of Chekhivskyi in February 1919. After that was in opposition to the government of Symon Petliura. In spring of 1919 participated in organization of the Labor Congress of Ukraine in Kamianets-Podilskyi.

Cooperation with the Soviets and arrest

After the occupation by the Red Army Chekhivskyi stayed in Ukraine and in 1920 joined the Ukrainian Communist Party. In October 1921 he participated in the 1st All-Ukrainian Church Assembly that confirmed autocephaly of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and was an adviser to Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky, organized pastoral courses in Kyiv. Chekhivsky was one of the main ideologists of the Ukrainian Church autocephaly and supporter of Christian socialism. In October 1927 he became a chairman of the 2nd All-Ukrainian Assembly of UAOC. During that time Chekhivsky also worked in the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences at its history-philology department, was a professor of medical and polytechnic institutes in Kiev, lectured at social-economical courses.

On 29 July 1929, Chekhivskyi was arrested in connection with the

External links

• Chekhivskyi: statesman, chaplain, victim of the Sandarmokh forest,
  Radio Liberty
  , 2012-06-02
• Chekhivskyi, Volodymyr Archived 2012-01-21 at the Wayback Machine, Handbook on the History of Ukraine
• Chekhivskyi, Volodymyr,^{[dead link]} History of Poltava web-portal