Simon Petlyura
| Symon Petliura | |
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| Симон Петлюра | |
Chief Otaman Symon Petliura
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| 2nd Chairman of the Directorate | |
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In office 11 February 1919 – May 1926 |
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| Preceded by | Volodymyr Vynnychenko |
| Succeeded by | Andriy Livytskyi1 |
| Secretary of Military Affairs | |
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In office 28 June 1917 – 6 January 1918 |
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| Prime Minister | Volodymyr Vynnychenko |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | Mykola Porsh |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Symon Vasylyovych Petliura 10 May 1879 Poltava, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 May 1926 (aged 47) Paris, France |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | RUP (1900–1905), USDLP (1905–1919) |
| Spouse(s) | Olha Bilska (1885–1959, m.1910) |
| Children | Lesya (1911–1941) |
| Alma mater | Poltava Orthodox Seminary |
| Occupation | Politician and statesman |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Ukrainian People's Republic
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| Service/branch | Ukrainian People's Army |
| Years of service | 1914–1922 |
| Rank | Chief Otaman |
| Commands | Haidamaka Kish of Sloboda Ukraine |
| Battles/wars |
Ukrainian–Soviet War Kiev January Uprising Anti-Hetman Uprising Polish–Soviet War |
| 1Government in exile. | |
Symon Vasylyovych Petliura (Ukrainian: Си́мон Васи́льович Петлю́ра, Russian: Симо́н Васи́льевич Петлю́ра; May 22, 1879 – May 25, 1926) was a publicist, writer, journalist, Ukrainian politician, statesman of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and nationalist leader who led Ukraine's struggle for independence following the Russian Revolution of 1917 (1918–1921).
Petliura has been a controversial figure connected with pogroms of Jews in the Russian Empire. On May 25, 1926 he was assasinated in the center of Paris by the Russian anarchist of Jewish origin Sholom Schwartzbard.
Petliura was born on May 22 (Gregorian calendar, 10 May on Julian calendar), 1879, in a suburb of Poltava, Ukraine, the son of Vasyl Pavlovych Petliura and Olha Oleksiyivna (née Marchenko), of Cossack background. His father Vasyl Pavlovych was a Poltava city resident and had owned a transportation business. Petliura's mother was a daughter of an Orthodox hieromonk (priest-monk). Petliura's initial education was obtained in parochial schools, and he planned to become an Orthodox priest.
During his years (1895–1901) in the Russian Orthodox Seminary in Poltava, Petliura joined the Hromada society in 1898. When his membership in Hromada was discovered in 1901, he was expelled from the seminary. In 1900 Petliura joined the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party. In 1902, under threat of arrest, he moved to Yekaterinodar in the Kuban where he worked for two years initially as a schoolteacher and later as an archivist for the Kuban Cossack Host where he helped organize over 200,000 documents. In December 1903, he was arrested for organizing a RUP branch in Yekaterinodar and for publishing inflammatory anti-tsarist articles in the Ukrainian press outside of Imperial Russia (in Lviv). He was released on bail in March 1904, moving briefly to Kiev and then emigrating to the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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