Ukrainian General Military Committee

Ukrainian General Military Committee (Ukrainian: Український генеральний військовий комітет; Ukrayinskyi heneralnyi viyskovyi komitet) was the highest military institution in Ukrainian People's Republic established by the First All-Ukrainian Military Congress on May 18, 1917 for the purpose of governing the Ukrainian military movement and transforming the Russian military on the territory of Ukrainian lands into national military force. The committee was a precursor of a defense ministry. The delegates of military congress decided that the committee would be subordinated to the Central Council of Ukraine rather than the Russian Provisional Government or the All-Russian General Military Command.

Initially it was composed of 19 members:Symon Petliura (chairman), Volodymyr Vynnychenko, General Mykhailo Ivanov, Colonel Ivan Lutsenko, Colonel Oleksandr Pilkevych, Colonel Viktor Pavlenko, Lt.Colonel Yuriy Kapkan, Lt.Colonel Volodymyr Poplavko, Lieutenant (Poruchik) Arsen Cherniavsky, Lieutenant (Poruchik) Mykola Mikhnovsky, Ensign (Khorunzhyi) A.Pevnyi, Ensign (Khorunzhyi) Vasyl Potishko, Ensign (Khorunzhyi) Mykhailo Poloz, Ensign (Khorunzhyi) Fedir Seletsky, military administrator I.Horemyka-Krupchynsky, soldiers S.Hrazhdan and Dmytro Rovynsky, sailor Semen Pysmenyi. In June 1917 they were co-opted with General Luka Kondratovych, Colonel Oleksandr Zhukovsky, Lt.Colonel Vasyl Matiashevych, Lt.Colonel Oleksandr Slyvynsky, Captain (Sotnyk) S.Biletsky, Captain (Sotnyk) H.Hlibovsky, Lieutenant (Poruchik) Volodymyr Kedrovsky (deputy chairman), Lieutenant (Poruchik) M.Levytsky, Lieutenant (Poruchik) Petro Skrypchynsky, Soldier S.Kolos (secretary).

...
Wikipedia