Vsevolod Holubovych
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Vsevolod Holubovych | |
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Всеволод Голубович | |
2nd Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic | |
In office January 31, 1918 – April 29, 1918 | |
President | Mykhailo Hrushevsky (speaker of Central Rada) |
Preceded by | Volodymyr Vynnychenko |
Succeeded by | Mykola Vasylenko (acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | February 1885 Ukrainian Revolutionary Party (1903–1912) |
Spouse(s) | Tetyana Kardynalovska (1917–1919) Frida Vitikhnovska(1922–1939) |
Children | Iryna Holubovych |
Alma mater | Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1915) |
Occupation | Politician, engineer, editor |
Vsevolod Oleksandrovych Holubovych (Ukrainian: Всеволод Олександрович Голубович; February 1885 – 16 May 1939) was the prime minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic from January to March 1918.[1]
Early period
Holubovych was born in the village of
Volodymyr Chekhivsky
as a teacher. Vsevolod by the end of his studies in the seminary started to be interested in the political life in the country and in 1903 joined the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party.
Vsevolod decided to deviate from his family occupation, enrolling in the Engineering Department of the
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. In 1905 he was arrested for the first time and was excluded from the university. It took his mother's influence and connections to refrain Vsevolod from interrogations and reinstatement back into university. The administration of KPI reviewed her son's case and charged him with a simple administrative warning. Vsevolod was allowed to complete his studies in 1915 when Holubovych finally received his diploma in civil engineering (road network specialization). Considering all the complications that involved to reinstate him back in school, he nonetheless chose to ignore the warning and together with his friend Ivan Nemolovsky, who just returned from Belgium, established the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party. The party has already was earning the popularity amongst various categories of population in the Russian Empire
and especially in the Ukrainian lands.
Professional life
Upon graduating Holubovych got a job as a professional railway engineer at the
Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party
(UPSR) amongst the railway workers of the Odesa network. As the leader of that party he was elected to the Odesa City Council (Duma) and by April 1917 Holubovych headed the council.
Revolution
He was a member of the
Central Council was forced to appoint Vsevolod Holubovych as the head of Ukrainian government on January 31, 1918. Holubovych also headed the Ukrainian delegation to Brest-Litovsk and negotiated the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. After a German-backed coup d'état, which installed Pavlo Skoropadskyi as Hetman of Ukraine on April 29, Holubovych was arrested and convicted in kidnapping of banker A. Dobryi. He was imprisoned until December 16, 1918, in Lukyanivka. In August 1920 was arrested again by the Special team of the 14th Army. A year later he was convicted to five years in prison as part of the Ukrainian SR process together with some other Ukrainian politicians such as Serhiy Ostapenko
. Holubovych was amnestied right away in December 1921, and served as chairman of the Supreme Economic Council of the Ukrainian SSR until 1931.
In 1931 he was arrested together with his wife in Kharkiv and later convicted now as part of the fictitious Ukrainian National Center and imprisoned in Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR. He died in imprisonment in 1939.
Family
- Oleksandr Kochanowsky (Ukrainian: Олександр Кохановський), a nephew, electrical-engineer (Kharkiv Technological Institute). Kochanovsky was born in Vinnytsia on May 25, 1904, and was a son of Zina Holubovych (sister of Vsevolod Holubovych). He was a member of the Ukrainian Society of Engineers. One of his several hobbies was to write poetry.
See also
References
External links
- (in English) About Holubovych
- (in Ukrainian) Serbin, S. In another time, in another place. Scientific-Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies website