Volodymyr Vynnychenko
| Volodymyr Vynnychenko Володимир Винниченко |
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| 1st Chairman of the Directory | |
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In office December 19, 1918 – February 10, 1919 |
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| Preceded by | Pavlo Skoropadsky (as Hetman of Ukraine) |
| Succeeded by | Symon Petliura |
| 1st Prime Minister of Ukrainian People's Republic | |
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In office June 28, 1917 – January 30, 1918 |
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| President |
Mykhailo Hrushevsky (speaker of Central Rada) |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | Vsevolod Holubovych |
| Secretary of Internal Affairs | |
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In office June 28, 1917 – January 30, 1918 |
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| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | Pavlo Khrystiuk |
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July 28, 1880 Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire |
| Died | March 6, 1951 (aged 70) Mougins, France |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | Foreign Group of Ukrainian Communists (1919) |
| Other political affiliations |
Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party (1905-1919) Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (?-1905) |
| Spouse(s) | Rosalia Yakovna Vynnychenko (Lifshits) |
| Alma mater | Kiev University |
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Volodymyr Kyrylovych Vynnychenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Кирилович Винниченко, July 28 [O.S. July 16] 1880 – March 6, 1951) was a Ukrainian statesman, political activist, writer, playwright, artist.
As a writer, Vynnychenko is recognized in Ukrainian literature as a leading modernist writer in prerevolutionary Ukraine, who wrote short stories, novels, and plays, but in Soviet Ukraine his works were forbidden, like that of many other Ukrainian writers, from the 1930s until the mid-1980s. Prior to his entry onto the stage of Ukrainian politics, he was a long-time political activist, who lived abroad in Western Europe from 1906-1914. His works reflect his immersion in the Ukrainian revolutionary milieu, among impoverished and working-class people, and among emigres from the Russian Empire living in Western Europe.
Vynnychenko was born in a village Vesely Kut (today – Hryhorivka, Novoukrainka Raion), the Kherson Governorate of the Russian Empire in a family of peasants. His father Kyrylo Vasyliovych Vynnychenko earlier in his life was a peasant-serf has moved from a village to the city of Yelisavetgrad where he married a widow Yevdokia Pavlenko (nee: Linnyk). From her previous marriage Yevdokia had three children: Andriy, Maria, and Vasyl, while from the marriage with Kyrylo only one son Volodymyr. Upon graduating from a local public school the Vynnychenko family managed to enroll Volodymyr to the (today is the building of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine). In later grades of the gymnasium he took part in a revolutionary organization and wrote a revolutionary poem for which was incarcerated for a week and excluded from school. That did not stop him to continue his studying as he was getting prepared for his test to obtain the high school diploma (Matura). He successfully took the test in the Zlatopil gymnasium from which obtained his attestation of maturity.
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