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Fedir Shvets | |
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Федір Швець | |
 Shvets in 1920 | |
| Member of theDirectorate | |
| In office 13 November 1918 – 21 May 1920 | |
| Chairman | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1882-11-11)11 November 1882 Zhabotyn,Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 20 June 1940(1940-06-20) (aged 57) |
| Political party | Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party |
| Alma mater | University of Tartu |
| Occupation | Geologist, public activist, statesman |
Fedir Petrovych Shvets (Ukrainian:Фе́дір Петро́вич Швець; 11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1882 – 20 June 1940) was a Ukrainian geologist, public activist, and politician. He served as a member of theDirectorate of Ukraine from its establishment in November 1918 until his removal in May 1920, representing the peasantry.
Shvets was born on 11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1882, 1882, inZhabotyn,Cherkassky Uyezd. From 1909, after finishing the Natural Studies College of theUniversity of Tartu continued to work as an assistant at the Department of Geology. He actively participated in all the activities that took place in the university, and until 1916, was also teaching at the local gymnasium. In 1915, he was appointed as adocent of theacademic department ofpaleontology and while conducting research in theCrimean peninsula and theCaucasus Mountains.
In March 1917, Shvets returned to Ukraine. At the Congress of a Ukrainian village representatives (6–7 April 1917) he was elected to the Central Committee (CC) of the Peasant Association from the Cherkassky Uyezd and also to the CC of theUkrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party (UPSR). In June 1917, at the1st All-Ukrainian Peasant Congress Shvets was elected to the All-Ukrainian Council of Peasant's Deputies which later joined theCentral Rada. During the same time he was working in the 2ndKiev gymnasium and in the organizational committee for the creation of the Ukrainian People's University. In September 1918, he was appointed as a professor of geology in the Ukrainian State University in Kiev where he became its first pro-rector.
At times of theUkrainian State Shvets joined the Ukrainian National Union and on 13 November 1918 together withVolodymyr Vynnychenko,Symon Petliura,Opanas Andrievsky, andAndriy Makarenko was elected to theDirectorate. On 15 November 1919, with the agreement of both the Directorate and the government of theUkrainian People's Republic (UNR) together with Makarenko departed abroad with a diplomatic assignment transferring all the power to Petliura. On 25 May 1920 the government of UNR dismissed him from the Directorate.
While in emigration he was teaching in the Ukrainian high-schools inCzechoslovakia where he lived inPrague. From 1923, Shvets was the professor of geology at the Ukrainian Liberal University and in 1924-1929 at the Ukrainian Higher Pedagogical Institute ofDrahomanov. He was an author of numerous scientific works ingeology. In 1928 and 1929, together with Andriy Makarenko and Opanas Andrievsky they created the Ukrainian National Rada.[clarification needed] Shvets died in Prague.
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