Georgiy Afanasyev
| Georgiy Afanasyev Афанасьєв Георгій Омелянович |
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| Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine | |
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In office November 14, 1918 – December 14, 1918 |
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| Prime Minister | Serhiy Gerbel |
| Preceded by | Dmytro Doroshenko |
| Succeeded by | Volodymyr Chekhivsky |
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| Born | 28 February 1848 Ufa, Orenburg Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 15 December 1925 |
| Political party | Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Alma mater | University of Odesa |
Georgiy Afanasyev (Ukrainian: Георгій Омелянович Афанасьєв; 28 February 1848, Ufa - 15 December 1925, Belgrade) was a Ukrainian historian, politician, and diplomat. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian State (1918). Received a master's degree for his thesis: "The main points of the ministerial Turgot" (1884); and his doctoral dissertation was: "The Conditions of the Grain Trade in France at the End of the 18th Century" (1892). From 1888 he lectured at the University of Odesa. He reading in Odesa and Kyiv.
Georgiy Afanasyev graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Odesa (1869). His main research interests are: history of ancient Egypt, the history of the Slavs and the Russian Empire, medieval and modern history of Britain and France, Russian literature and economics.
Since 1879 the cathedral Privatdozent at the University of Odesa universal history, while in the years 1879-1912 correspondent Odesa and Kyiv a number of magazines and newspapers. In 1884 he defended his thesis and published a dedicated Turgotowi, in 1892 dissertation grain trading conditions in France in the 18th century. Some of his works have been published in France and England.
The recommendation of Sergei Witte, the then Minister of Finance of the Russian Empire in 1896, was director of the branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire in Kyiv. Branch of directed until 1918. One of his achievements was the construction of the new headquarters branch, opened in 1905 (now the headquarters of the National Bank of Ukraine). In the state controller Fedir Lyzohub government (from 3 May to 24 October 1918). After the declaration of Pavlo Skoropadsky Hetman of a federal state relationship with Russia, November 14, 1918 appointed to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Serhiy Gerbel government, a function held to fall as a result of the Ukrainian State directed against him rise and take power by the Directorate (14 December 1918).
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