Mykola Plaviuk
| Mykola Plaviuk Микола Плав'юк |
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| 4th President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile | |
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In office December 8, 1989 – August 22, 1992 |
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| Preceded by | Mykola Livytskyi |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished1 |
| President of the UWC | |
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In office 1978–1981 |
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| Preceded by | Vasyl Kushnir |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Bazarko |
| Leader of the OUN | |
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In office 1981–2012 |
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| Preceded by | D. Kvitkovskyi |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 5, 1925 Rusiv, Poland (now Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in Ukraine) |
| Died | March 10, 2012 (aged 86) Hamilton, Ontario |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | OUN |
| Alma mater |
University of Munich Concordia University |
| 1Plaviuk terminated his authority as President of the Ukrainian People's Republic on August 22, 1992 when he formally ceded his authority to the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk. | |
Mykola Vasyliovych Plaviuk (Ukrainian: Микола Васильович Плав'юк; June 5, 1925 – March 10, 2012) was a Ukrainian social and political activist in emigration, who had served as the last President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile. He terminated his authority on August 22, 1992, when he formally ceded his authority to the first President of independent Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk.
Mykola Plaviuk (aka Plawiuk) was born on June 5, 1925 in the village of Rusiv in Poland (now part of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in independent Ukraine). During World War II, Mykola became active in the Plast scouting movement in western Ukraine, which provided training after which many youth subsequently joined the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. After the war, he fled to Germany where he received a diploma from the University of Munich in economics. He emigrated to Montreal in Canada in 1949 where he became an active member of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada. In 1954 he graduated from Concordia University.
Prior to the proclamation of an independent Ukrainian state in 1991, parallel to his professional career, Mykola Plawiuk held prominent positions in Ukrainian diaspora community/political institutions: President of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada (1956–66); Vice-President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (1966–71); senior Plast Ukrainian scout leader; initiator and chief organizer responsible for the establishment in 1967 of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians (WCFU) in New York; Secretary General of the WCFU (1973–76); 1st Vice-President of the WCFU (1976–78); President of the WCFU (1978–80); elected Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in 1979; in June 1988 elected Vice-President of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) in Exile.
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