Volodymyr Chekhivsky

Volodymyr Musiyovych Chekhivsky (Russian: Владимир Моисеевич Чеховский; Ukrainian: Володимир Мусійович Чехівський; July 19, 1876 in Kiev Governorate – November 3, 1937 in Sandarmokh) was a Ukrainian political and public activist, prime minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic, member of the Russian State Duma, one of founders of the . He was brother of conductor and singer Oleksa Chupryna-Chekhivsky.

Chekhivsky was born on July 19, 1876 to the family of a clergyman in a village of Horokhuvatka, Kiev Governorate (today in Kaharlyk Raion). In 1900 he graduated from the Kiev Theological Academy and the University of Odessa, from 1905 he was a Doctor of Theology. From 1897 he was a member of the student club of Drahomanov's Socialist-Democrats.

From 1901 to 1905 Cherkhivsky worked as Deputy Inspector of the seminaries of Kiev and Kamyanets-Podilsky. Because of his activity and interest in Ukrainian nationalism at the seminaries, Chekhivsky was dismissed and transferred to the Cherkassy Province. From 1905 to 1906 he was a teacher of Russian language as well as of the History of Literature and the Theory of Philology at the Cherkassy Theology College.

Between 1902-1904 Chekhivsky was a member of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, after which he switched to the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labor Party (USDLP) until 1919. In 1906, he was elected to the Imperial Duma, however the Russian government exiled him, as a Ukrainian to Vologda in Russia. However, through the efforts of his electors to the Imperial Duma, he was returned from exile after one year.

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