Volodymyr Vynnychenko

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Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Володимир Винниченко
Vynnychenko in 1910
1st Chairman of the Directory
In office December 19, 1918 – February 10, 1919
Preceded by	Pavlo Skoropadsky (as Hetman of Ukraine)
Succeeded by	Symon Petliura
1st Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic
In office June 28, 1917[1] – August 26, 1917
President	Mykhailo Hrushevsky (speaker of Central Rada)
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	Vsevolod Holubovych
Secretary of Internal Affairs
In office June 28, 1917 – January 30, 1918
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	Pavlo Khrystiuk
Personal details
Born	(1880-07-28)July 28, 1880 Vesely Kut, Russian Empire (today – Hryhorivka, Novoukrainka Raion, Ukraine)
Died	March 6, 1951(1951-03-06) (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	Rosalia Yakovna Vynnychenko (Lifshits)
Alma mater	Kyiv 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.