Volodymyr Vynnychenko

Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Володимир Винниченко
Vynnychenko in 1910
1st Chairman of the Directory
In office
December 19, 1918 – February 10, 1919
Preceded byPavlo Skoropadsky (as Hetman of Ukraine)
Succeeded bySymon Petliura
1st Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic
In office
June 28, 1917[1] – August 26, 1917
PresidentMykhailo Hrushevsky
(speaker of Central Rada)
Preceded byposition created
Succeeded byVsevolod Holubovych
Secretary of Internal Affairs
In office
June 28, 1917 – January 30, 1918
Prime MinisterHimself
Preceded byposition created
Succeeded byPavlo Khrystiuk
Personal details
Born(1880-07-28)July 28, 1880
Vesely Kut, Russian Empire (today – Hryhorivka, Novoukrainka Raion, Ukraine)
DiedMarch 6, 1951(1951-03-06) (aged 70)
Mougins, France
NationalityUkrainian
Political partyForeign Group of Ukrainian Communists (1919)
Other political
affiliations
Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party (1905–1919)
Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (?-1905)
SpouseRosalia Yakovna Vynnychenko (Lifshits)
Alma materKyiv 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 and artist who served as the first prime minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic.[1][2]

As a writer, Vynnychenko is recognized in Ukrainian literature as a leading modernist writer in pre-revolutionary 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 to 1914. His works reflect his immersion in the Ukrainian revolutionary milieu, among impoverished and working-class people, and among émigrés from the Russian Empire living in Western Europe.