Mykola Plaviuk

Mykola Plaviuk
Микола Плав'юк
Plaviuk in 2009
4th President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile
In office
8 December 1989[citation needed] – 22 August 1992
Preceded byMykola Livytskyi
Succeeded byLeonid Kravchuk (domiciled)1
4th President of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians
In office
1978–1981
Preceded byWasyl Kushnir
Succeeded byIvan Bazarko
Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
In office
1979–2012
Preceded byDenys Kvitkovskyi
Succeeded byBohdan Chervak
Personal details
Born(1925-06-05)5 June 1925
Rusów, Poland
(now Rusiv, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine)
Died10 March 2012(2012-03-10) (aged 86)
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
NationalityUkrainian
Political partyOrganization of Ukrainian Nationalists
Alma materUniversity of Munich
Concordia University
AwardsOrder of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class
Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 2nd class
Order of Merit
1Plaviuk terminated his authority as President of the Ukrainian People's Republic on 22 August 1992 when he formally ceded his authority to the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk.

Mykola Vasyliovych Plaviuk (Ukrainian: Микола Васильович Плав'юк; 5 June 1925 – 10 March 2012) was a Ukrainian social and political activist in emigration, who served as the last President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile. He terminated his authority on 22 August 1992, when he formally ceded his authority to the first President of independent Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk.