Volodymyr Zatonsky Володи́мир Петрович Зато́нський |
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Chairman of TsVK | |
In office March 19, 1918 – April 18, 1918 |
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Preceded by | Yukhym Medvedev |
Succeeded by | reorganized as Uprising Nine |
Secretary of Education | |
In office December 30, 1917 – April 18, 1918 |
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Prime Minister | Mykola Skrypnyk |
Preceded by | position created |
Succeeded by | Himself (as Narkom of Education) |
Narkom of Education | |
In office November 28, 1918 – ? |
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Prime Minister |
Heorhiy Pyatakov Christian Rakovsky |
Preceded by | Himself (as Secreatary of Education) |
Succeeded by | ? |
Chairman of Halych Revkom | |
In office July 8, 1920 – September 21, 1920 |
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Preceded by | position introduced |
Succeeded by | position disbanded |
Personal details | |
Born |
Lysets, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire |
July 27, 1888
Died | July 29, 1938 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
(aged 50)
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Spouse(s) | Olena Samiylivna Raskina |
Children | Dmytro |
Alma mater | Kiev University |
Volodymyr Zatonsky (Ukrainian: Володи́мир Зато́нський; Russian: Затонский, Владимир Петрович Vladimir Petrovich Zatonsky ) (July 27, 1888 – July 29, 1938) was a Soviet politician, Communist Party activist, and member of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences (since 1929).
Zatonsky was born in the village of Lysets in of Ushitsy (Ushytsia) Uyezd, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Dunaivtsi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine) into the family of a volost pysar.
He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) party as a Menshevik in 1905. In March 1917 he joined the Bolsheviks as the member of the Kiev Committee, later joining the Kiev revkom as well. He was one of few who initiated the organization of the Congress of the Workers-Peasants and Soldiers deputies as well as the military coup in Kiev. Zatonsky participated in the fight against the Central Rada.
When the Red Army took over Kiev in 1918 after the January Uprising, Zatonsky recalled that he only narrowly escaped execution as a counterrevolutionary when only Lenin's mandate saved his life.