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Vsevolod Holubovych | |
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| Всеволод Голубович | |
 Holubovych in 1928 | |
| 2ndPrime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic | |
| In office January 31, 1918 – April 29, 1918 | |
| President | Mykhailo Hrushevsky(speaker ofCentral Rada) |
| Preceded by | Volodymyr Vynnychenko |
| Succeeded by | Mykola Vasylenko(acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 1885 (1885-02) |
| Died | 16 May 1939(1939-05-16) (aged 54) |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | UPSR (since 1912) (leader) |
| Other political affiliations | Ukrainian Revolutionary Party (1903–1912) |
| Spouse(s) | Tetyana Kardynalovska(1917–1919) Frida Vitikhnovska(1922–1939) |
| Children | Iryna Holubovych |
| Alma mater | Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (1915) |
| Occupation | Politician,engineer,editor |
Vsevolod Oleksandrovych Holubovych (Ukrainian:Всеволод Олександрович Голубович; February 1885 – 16 May 1939) was theprime minister of theUkrainian People's Republic from January to March 1918.[1]
Holubovych was born in the village ofPoltavka,Baltsky Uyezd,Podolia Governorate. Vsevolod's father was Oleksandr Holubovych (Aug. 25, 1846 - Nov. 28, 1902) and his mother Iryna Ovsiyevna Yefremovych (Apr.29, 1859 - Oct.2, 1921). Born into a priest family, Holubovych as was expected to start his education in the Podilia Spiritual Seminary ofIvan Bohoslov (Kamianets-Podilskyi). Remarkable is the fact that the same seminary was attended by another futurePrime Minister of Ukraine,Volodymyr Chekhivsky as a teacher. Vsevolod by the end of his studies in the seminary started to be interested in the political life in the country and in 1903 joined the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party.
Vsevolod decided to deviate from his family occupation, enrolling in the Engineering Department of theKyiv Polytechnic Institute. In 1905 he was arrested for the first time and was excluded from the university. It took his mother's influence and connections to refrain Vsevolod from interrogations and reinstatement back into university. The administration of KPI reviewed her son's case and charged him with a simple administrative warning. Vsevolod was allowed to complete his studies in 1915 when Holubovych finally received his diploma in civil engineering (road network specialization). Considering all the complications that involved to reinstate him back in school, he nonetheless chose to ignore the warning and together with his friendIvan Nemolovsky, who just returned fromBelgium, established theUkrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party. The party has already was earning the popularity amongst various categories of population in theRussian Empire and especially in the Ukrainian lands.
Upon graduating Holubovych got a job as a professional railway engineer at theSouthern Railways. Still in school, in 1914 he already worked as an assistant manager at a some station inKharkiv Governorate. According to his family documents as an assistant to the railway division inOdesa, Holubovych was receiving 1500rubles pay and 375 rubles in living allowances. In September 1917 he was the chief of the department of water, highway, and road communications for theRomanian Front. In spring 1917 Holubovych created an Odesa department of theUkrainian Socialist Revolutionary Party (UPSR) amongst the railway workers of the Odesa network. As the leader of that party he was elected to theOdesa City Council (Duma) and by April 1917 Holubovych headed the council.
He was a member of theOdesa Ukrainian Hromada, from the name of which he sent a petition to theRussian Provisional Government to give Ukraine its territorial autonomy. Due to the Soviet aggression on Ukraine without declaration of war and poor management of the State Affairs on the part ofVolodymyr Vynnychenko, theCentral Council was forced to appoint Vsevolod Holubovych as the head of Ukrainian government on January 31, 1918. Holubovych also headed the Ukrainian delegation toBrest-Litovsk and negotiated theTreaty of Brest-Litovsk. After a German-backedcoup d'état, which installedPavlo Skoropadskyi asHetman of Ukraine on April 29, Holubovych was arrested and convicted inkidnapping of banker A. Dobryi. He was imprisoned until December 16, 1918, inLukyanivka. In August 1920 was arrested again by the Special team of the14th Army. A year later he was convicted to five years in prison as part of theUkrainian SR process together with some other Ukrainian politicians such asSerhiy Ostapenko. Holubovych was amnestied right away in December 1921, and served as chairman of the Supreme Economic Council of the Ukrainian SSR until 1931.
In 1931 he was arrested together with his wife inKharkiv and later convicted now as part of the fictitiousUkrainian National Center and imprisoned inYaroslavl,Russian SFSR. He died in imprisonment in 1939.
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by introduced | General Secretary of Transport July 1917–August 14, 1917 | Succeeded by Vadym Yeschenko |
| Preceded by introduced | General Secretary of Trade and Industry reformed into Ministry in 1918 November 20, 1917–January 18, 1918 | Succeeded by I.Feschenko-Chopivsky |
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