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President
  
Symon Petliura

Succeeded by
  
Arnold D. Margolin


Name
  
Mykola Stakhovsky

Alma mater
  
University of Warsaw

Born
  
22 May 1879 Stetkivtsi, Zhytomyr oblast (
1879-05-22
)

Died
  
December 7, 1948, Prague, Czech Republic

Mykola Stakhovsky (Микола Стаховський) (May 22, 1879 in Stetkivtsi, Zhytomyr oblast – December 7, 1948 in Prague) – is a Ukrainian diplomat, politic, medic. Head of the Ukrainian mission to the United Kingdom (1919).

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Education

Mykola Stakhovsky graduated from Warsaw University, faculty of medical (1904).

Career

In 1904 - 1905 - he served with the Red Cross in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang.

In 1906 - he published ″Borotba″, an official periodical publication of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party in Kyiv.

In 1906 - 1908 - he continued his medical studies in Paris

In 1909 - 1914 - he practised medicine in Vinnytsia.

In 1914 - 1917 - he continued his medical career in Proskuriv.

In May 1917 - after the establishment of the Ukrainian Central Rada, he was appointed provincial commissioner of Podillia.

28 January 1919 to September 1919 - he was as the first head of the diplomatic mission of the Ukrainian People's Republic in London

In 1920 - 1922 - he continued his practised medicine in Paris and in Berlin.

In 1924 - 1939 - he practised medicine in Berehovo, where he was also one of the leading organizers of Ukrainian cultural life.

In 1939 - 1945 - he practised in Rumburk, Czechoslovakia.

December 7, 1948 - died in Prague and is buried in the Olšany Cemetery.

References

Mykola Stakhovsky Wikipedia