Serhiy Ostapenko
| Serhiy Ostapenko Сергій Степанович Остапенко |
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| 4th Chairman of People's Ministers | |
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In office February 13, 1919 – April 9, 1919 |
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| President | Directoria |
| Preceded by | Volodymyr Chekhivsky |
| Succeeded by | Borys Martos |
| Minister of Trade and Industry | |
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In office December 26, 1918 – February 13, 1919 |
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| Prime Minister | Volodymyr Chekhivsky |
| Preceded by | Serhiy Mering |
| Succeeded by | position disbanded |
| Minister of Agitation and Propaganda | |
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In office February 6, 1919 – April 9, 1919 |
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| Prime Minister | Volodymyr Chekhivsky |
| Preceded by | O.Nazaruk |
| Succeeded by | T.Cherkasky |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1881 Zhytomyr Uyezd, Volyn Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1937 (aged 55) ? |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | UPSR (1905-1919) |
| Alma mater | Kiev Commercial Institute (1913) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Serhiy Ostapenko (November 1881—1937) was economist, statesman, and political activist of Ukraine. In the beginning of 1919 he directed the Council of People's Ministers of Ukrainian People's Republic (prime-minister).
Ostapenko was born in November 1881 in the town of Troyaniv near Zhytomyr. Today it is the village of Zhytomyr Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast. Ostapenko was born into family of a poor peasants and his father had another job as a freight transporter. From 1893 to 1897 Ostapenko attended the local elementary school, after which, he enrolled into an agrarian middle school in Bilokrynytsia of Kremenets uyezd (today Kremenets Raion of Ternopil Oblast).
In 1904 he started working as a teacher in a two-grade school of Turiysk of Kovel uyezd. In 1905 Ostapenko was arrested for being a member of the [Ukrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party]. He spent the next three years in jail for political reasons as he claimed. After his release, Ostapenko had some trouble of finding employment. He graduated from the Vladimir cadet corps after final tests in 1909 and the same year enrolled into the Economic school of Kyiv Commercial Institute (now Kyiv National Economic University). Upon his graduation in 1913 he was sent to Germany for extended studies in Economics.
In 1913 he returned to Ukraine where he found the job as head of the Bureau of Statistics in Balta uyezd of Podolia Governorate. In 1914 Ostapenko was transferred to Kharkiv where he headed the Bureau of Statistics for the Mining Industry of Sloboda Ukraine. Later he returned to Kyiv where he worked as a private-docent in the Kyiv Commercial Institute until 1917.
In January 1918, Ostapenko was appointed as an economic adviser to the Ukrainian economic commission of Vsevolod Holubovych for the negotiations in Brest-Litovsk (see Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine – Central Powers)). On March 14, 1918 he worked to the trade commission of Mykola Porsh for the goods exchange with the Central Powers and responsible to the Council of People's Ministers.
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