List of prime ministers of Ukraine

The prime minister of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Прем'єр-міністр України, Prem'ier-ministr Ukrayiny) is Ukraine's head of government presiding over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government.

Since Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been 18 prime ministers.^[1]

Unlike the president of Ukraine, who is directly elected by popular vote every five years, the prime minister is appointed by the president upon the ratification of the candidate by the parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.

Denys Shmyhal is the current prime minister of Ukraine since 4 March 2020.^[2]^[1]

Originally a parliamentary republic without a head of state, in 1918 a post of head of state was introduced in the form of a dictatorship. For a brief period there existed a collective head of state (Directory) which was soon phased away. During the Soviet period, a post of head of state was in a shadow of the Communist Party leader (see First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine).

List of officeholders

Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918)

Name (Birth–Death)	Election	Term of office		Duration	Party	Government	Cabinet Composition	Head of state
Volodymyr Vynnychenko Володимир Винниченко Head of the General Secretariat (1880–1951)	—	28 June 1917	26 August 1917	59 days	USDP	Vynnychenko I	USDRP • UPSR • Fareynikte • Bund • AKP • UPSF	none (1917–1918)
Dmytro Doroshenko Дмитро Дорошенко Head of the General Secretariat (1882–1951)	—	27 August 1917	31 August 1917	4 days	UPSF	Doroshenko	USDRP • UPSR • Fareynikte • Bund • AKP • UPSF
Volodymyr Vynnychenko Володимир Винниченко Head of the General Secretariat (1880–1951)	—	3 September 1917	22 January 1918	141 days	USDRP	Vynnychenko II	USDRP • UPSF • UPSR • Fareynikte • UPSI • Bund • AKP • NSP
Vsevolod Holubovych Всеволод Голубович Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers (1885–1939)	—	31 January 1918	29 April 1918	88 days	UPSR	Holubovych	UPSR • UPSI • USDRP

Ukrainian State (1918)

Name (Birth–Death)	Election	Term of office Duration		Party	Government	Cabinet Composition	Hetman
Mykola Vasylenko Микола Василенко Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1866–1935)	—	30 April 1918	4 May 1918	K-D	Vasylenko	K-D	Pavlo Skoropadskyi Павло Скоропадський (1918)
	—	4 days		K-D	Vasylenko	K-D
Fedir Lyzohub Федір Лизогуб Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1851–1928)	—	4 May 1918	14 November 1918	Octobrist	Lyzohub	Octobrist • K-D • UPSF
	—	194 days		Octobrist	Lyzohub	Octobrist • K-D • UPSF
Sergey Gerbel Сергій Гербель Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1856–1936)	—	14 November 1918	14 December 1918	Independent	Gerbel	Octobrist • K-D • UPSF
	—	30 days		Independent	Gerbel	Octobrist • K-D • UPSF

Ukrainian People's Republic (restored; 1918–1921)

Name (Birth–Death)	Election	Term of office Duration		Party	Government	Cabinet Composition	Head of State
Volodymyr Chekhivsky Володимир Чехівський Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers (1876–1937)	1918	26 December 1918	13 February 1919	USDRP	Chekhivsky	USDRP • UPSR • UNDO • UPSI • Poale Zion	The Directorate (collective) (1918–1921)
	1918	49 days		USDRP	Chekhivsky	USDRP • UPSR • UNDO • UPSI • Poale Zion
Serhiy Ostapenko Сергій Остапенко Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers (1881–1937)	—	13 February 1919	9 April 1919	Independent	Ostapenko	UPSF • UPSI • UNDO
	—	55 days		Independent	Ostapenko	UPSF • UPSI • UNDO
Borys Martos Борис Мартос Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers (1879–1977)	—	9 April 1919	27 August 1919	USDRP	Martos	USDRP • UPSR • URP • Poale Zion
	—	140 days		USDRP	Martos	USDRP • UPSR • URP • Poale Zion
Isaak Mazepa Ісаак Мазепа Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers (1884–1952)	—	29 August 1919	26 May 1920	USDRP	Mazepa	USDRP
	—	271 days		USDRP	Mazepa	USDRP
Viacheslav Prokopovych В'ячеслав Прокопович Head of the General Secretariat (1881–1942)	—	26 May 1920	18 March 1921	UPSF	Prokopovych	USDRP • UPSF
	—	296 days		UPSF	Prokopovych	USDRP • UPSF

Prime ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office Duration		Party	Notes	Head of State
	Andriy Livytskyi Андрій Лівицький (1879–1954)	18 Nov 1920	24 May 1921	USDRP	Resided in Paris	Symon Petliura (as chairman of the Directorate of Ukraine)
	Viacheslav Prokopovych В'ячеслав Прокопович (1881–1942)	24 May 1921	5 August 1921	Independent	Resided in Paris
	Pylyp Pylypchuk Пилип Пилипчук (1879–1940)	5 August 1921	14 January 1922	USDRP	Resided in Paris
	Andriy Livytskyi Андрій Лівицький (1879–1954)	14 January 1922	25 May 1926	USDRP	Resided in Paris
	Viacheslav Prokopovych В'ячеслав Прокопович (1881–1942)	25 May 1926	October 1939	Independent	Resided in Paris	Andriy Livytskyi (as chairman of the Directorate of Ukraine)
	Oleksandr Shulhyn Олександр Шульгин (1889–1960)	October 1939	May 1940	Independent	Resided in Paris
	Andrii Yakovliv Андрій Яковлів (1872–1955)	1944	1945	Independent	Resided in Prague
	Kost Pankivskiy Кость Паньківський (1897–1973)	1945	1948	Ukrainian National State Union	Resided in Munich
	Isaak Mazepa Ісаак Мазепа (1884–1952)	19 June 1948	18 March 1952	Ukrainian Socialist Party	Resided in Munich; died in office	Andriy Livytskyi (as president of Ukrainian People's Republic in exile
	Stepan Baran Степан Баран (1879–1953)	18 March 1952	4 June 1953	UNDO	Resided in Munich; died in office
Vacant (4 June 1953 – 1954)
	Spyrydon Dovhal Спиридон Довгаль (1896–1975)	1954	1954	Ukrainian Socialist Party	Resided in Munich	Stepan Vytvytskyi
	Symon Sozontiv Симон Созонтів (1898–1980)	1954	1957	Independent	Resided in Munich
	Mykola Livytskyi Микола Лівицький (1907–1989)	1957	22 March 1967	Ukrainian National State Union	Resided in Munich
	Atanas Figol Атанас Фіґоль (1908–1993)	22 March 1967	1969	Independent	Resided in Munich	Mykola Livytskyi
	Spyrydon Dovhal Спиридон Довгаль (1896–1975)	1969	1972	Ukrainian Socialist Party	Resided in Munich
	Vasyl Fedoronchuk Василь Федорончук (1915–1984?)^[3]	1972	1974	UNDO	Resided in Munich
	Teofil Leontiy Теофіль Леонтій (?–?)	1974	1980	Independent	Resided in Munich
	Jaroslav Rudnyckyj Ярослав Рудницький (1910–1995)	1980	1989	Independent	Resided in Munich
	Ivan Samiylenko Іван Самійленко (1912–2006)	1989	22 August 1992	Ukrainian National State Union	Resided in Munich; transferred his duties to Vitold Fokin as prime minister of independent Ukraine.^[4]	Mykola Plaviuk

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1922–1991)

Note: during the Soviet period a head of state in Ukraine as in any other union republic was a chair person of Central Executive Committee and after 1938 a chair person of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Verkhovna Rada).

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Election	Term of office Duration		Party	Government	Cabinet Composition	Central Executive Committee
	Christian Rakovsky Християн Раковський Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1873–1941)	—	16 January 1919	30 December 1922	KPU	Rakovsky I	KPU	Grigory Petrovsky Григорій Петровський (1919–1938)
			30 December 1922	15 July 1923		Rakovsky II
			4 years, 180 days			Rakovsky II
	Vlas Chubar Влас Чубар Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1891/1881–1939)	—	15 July 1923	28 April 1934	KPU	Chubar	KPU
		—	10 years, 287 days		KPU	Chubar	KPU
	Panas Lyubchenko Панас Любченко Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1897–1937)	—	28 April 1934	30 August 1937	KPU	Lyubchenko	KPU
		—	3 years, 124 days ^[†]		KPU	Lyubchenko	KPU
	Mykhailo Bondarenko Михайло Бондаренко Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1903–1938)	—	31 August 1937	13 October 1937	KPU	Bondarenko	KPU
		—	43 days		KPU	Bondarenko	KPU
After Bondarenko's arrest for conspiracy, Mykola Marchak became acting Chairman, from 13 October 1937 to 21 February 1938, until his arrest.								Presidium
	Demyan Korotchenko Дем’ян Коротченко Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1894–1969)	1937	21 February 1938	6 August 1939	KPU	Korotchenko I	KPU	Leonid Korniyets Леонід Корнієць (1938–1939)
		1937	1 year, 166 days		KPU	Korotchenko I	KPU	Leonid Korniyets Леонід Корнієць (1938–1939)
	Leonid Korniyets Леонід Корнієць Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1901–1969)	1939	6 August 1939	20 August 1941	KPU	Korniyets	KPU	Mykhailo Hrechukha Михайло Гречуха (1939–1954)
			20 August 1941	16 February 1944
			4 years, 194 days
	Nikita Khrushchev Микита Хрущов Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (1894–1971)	—	16 February 1944	29 August 1944	KPU	Khrushchev	KPU
			29 August 1944	4 March 1947
			3 years, 16 days
	Demyan Korotchenko Дем’ян Коротченко Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1894–1969)	1947	4 March 1947	15 January 1954	KPU	Korotchenko II	KPU
		1951	4 March 1947	15 January 1954
		1951	6 years, 317 days
	Nikifor Kalchenko Никифор Кальчекно Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1906–1989)	1955	15 January 1954	28 February 1961	KPU	Kalchenko	KPU	Demyan Korotchenko Дем’ян Коротченко (1954–1969)
		1959	15 January 1954	28 February 1961
		1959	7 years, 44 days
	Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Володимир Щербицький Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1918–1990)	—	28 February 1961	28 June 1963	KPU	Shcherbytsky I	KPU
		—	2 years, 120 days		KPU	Shcherbytsky I	KPU
	Ivan Kazanets Іван Казанець Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1918–2013)	1963	28 June 1963	22 October 1965	KPU	Kazanets	KPU
		1963	2 years, 116 days		KPU	Kazanets	KPU
	Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Володимир Щербицький Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1918–1990)	1967	22 October 1965	8 June 1972	KPU	Shcherbytsky II	KPU
		1971	22 October 1965	8 June 1972				Oleksandr Liashko Олександр Ляшко (1969–1972)
		1971	6 years, 230 days					Oleksandr Liashko Олександр Ляшко (1969–1972)
	Oleksandr Liashko Олександр Ляшко Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1915–2002)	1975	8 June 1972	10 July 1987	KPU	Liashko I	KPU	Ivan Hrushetsky Іван Грушецький (1972–1976)
		1980				Liashko I		Ivan Hrushetsky Іван Грушецький (1972–1976)
		1985				Liashko II		Oleksiy Vatchenko Олексій Ватченко (1976–1984)
		1985	15 years, 32 days			Liashko II		Valentyna Shevchenko Валентина Шевченко (1984–1990)
	Vitaliy Masol Віталій Масол Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1928–2018)	—	10 July 1987	23 October 1990	KPU	Masol I	KPU
		—	3 years, 105 days		KPU	Masol I	KPU
	Vitold Fokin Вітольд Фокін Chairman of the Council of Ministers (born 1932)	1990	23 October 1990	18 April 1991	KPU	Fokin	KPU	Vacant (1990–1991)
		1990	177 days		KPU	Fokin	KPU	Vacant (1990–1991)

Ukraine (1991–present)

No.	Name (Birth–Death)	Election	Term of office		Duration	Party	Government	Cabinet Composition	President
	Vitold Fokin Вітольд Фокін Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1932)	—	18 April 1991	2 October 1992	1 year, 167 days	Independent	Fokin	Independents	Leonid Kravchuk Леонід Кравчук (1991–1994)
After Fokin's resignation, Valentyn Symonenko became acting Prime Minister, from 2 to 13 October 1992.
	Leonid Kuchma Леонід Кучма Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1938)	—	13 October 1992	22 September 1993	344 days	Independent	Kuchma	Independents
After Kuchma's resignation, Yukhym Zvyahilsky became acting Prime Minister, from 22 September 1993 to 16 June 1994.
	Vitaliy Masol Віталій Масол Prime Minister of Ukraine (1928–2018)	1994	16 June 1994	1 March 1995	258 days	Independent	Masol II	Independents	Leonid Kuchma Леонід Кучма (1994–2005)
	Yevhen Marchuk Євген Марчук Prime Minister of Ukraine (1941–2021)	—	1 March 1995	28 May 1996	1 year, 88 days	Independent	Marchuk	Independents
	Pavlo Lazarenko Павло Лазаренко Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1953)	—	28 May 1996	2 July 1997	1 year, 35 days	Independent	Lazarenko I	Independents
		—	28 May 1996	2 July 1997	1 year, 35 days	Independent	Lazarenko II	Independents
After Lazarenko's dismissal, Vasyl Durdynets became acting Prime Minister, from 2 to 30 July 1997.
	Valeriy Pustovoitenko Валерій Пустовойтенко Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1947)	1998	30 July 1997	22 December 1999	2 years, 145 days	People's Democratic Party	Pustovoitenko	NDP • Hromada • PRP
	Viktor Yushchenko Віктор Ющенко Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1954)	—	22 December 1999	29 May 2001	1 year, 158 days	People's Democratic Party	Yushchenko	NDP • Batkivshchyna • PRP
	Anatoliy Kinakh Анатолій Кінах Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1954)	—	29 May 2001	21 November 2002	1 year, 176 days	Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs	Kinakh	NDP • Batkivshchyna • PR • PPPU • NP • TU
	Viktor Yanukovych Віктор Янукович Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1950)	2002	21 November 2002	5 January 2005	2 years, 45 days	Party of Regions	Yanukovych I	For United Ukraine! (PR • NDP • PPPU • NP • TU)
After Yanukovych's resignation, Mykola Azarov became acting Prime Minister, from 5 to 24 January 2005.
	Yulia Tymoshenko Юлія Тимошенко Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1960)	—	24 January 2005	8 September 2005	243 days	All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland"	Tymoshenko I	Our Ukraine Bloc • Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc • PPPU • SPU	Viktor Yushchenko Віктор Ющенко (2005–2010)
	Yuriy Yekhanurov Юрій Єхануров Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1948)	—	8 September 2005	4 August 2006	334 days	Our Ukraine	Yekhanurov	Our Ukraine Bloc • SPU
	Viktor Yanukovych Віктор Янукович Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1950)	2006	4 August 2006	18 December 2007	1 year, 136 days	Party of Regions	Yanukovych II	Government of National Unity (PR • SPU • KPU • Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc • Our Ukraine Bloc)^[a]
	Yulia Tymoshenko Юлія Тимошенко Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1960)	2007	18 December 2007	4 March 2010	2 years, 90 days	All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland"	Tymoshenko II	Fatherland • Our Ukraine • PRP • Rukh • PPNS
After Tymoshenko's resignation, Oleksandr Turchynov became acting Prime Minister, from 4 to 11 March 2010.									Viktor Yanukovych Віктор Янукович (2010–2014)
	Mykola Azarov Микола Азаров Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1947)	2012	11 March 2010	28 January 2014	3 years, 323 days	Party of Regions	Azarov I	PR • Lytvyn Bloc • SU • YT • SPU
		2012	11 March 2010	28 January 2014	3 years, 323 days	Party of Regions	Azarov II	PR • U-V
After Azarov's resignation, Serhiy Arbuzov became acting Prime Minister, from 28 January to 22 February 2014.
Oleksandr Turchynov succeeded Arbuzov as acting Prime Minister until 27 February 2014.
	Arseniy Yatsenyuk Арсеній Яценюк Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1974)	2014	27 February 2014	14 April 2016	2 years, 60 days	All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland"^[b]	Yatsenyuk I	Fatherland • Svoboda	Petro Poroshenko Петро Порошенко (2014–2019)
		2014	27 February 2014	14 April 2016	2 years, 60 days	People's Front	Yatsenyuk II	Solidarity • PF • Self Reliance • RP • Fatherland
	Volodymyr Groysman Володимир Гройсман Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1978)	—	14 April 2016	29 August 2019	3 years, 137 days	Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"	Groysman	Solidarity • PF
		—	14 April 2016	29 August 2019	3 years, 137 days	Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"	Groysman	Solidarity • PF	Volodymyr Zelenskyy Володимир Зеленський (2019–present)
	Oleksiy Honcharuk Олексій Гончарук Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1984)	2019	29 August 2019	4 March 2020	213 days	Servant of the People	Honcharuk	SP
	Denys Shmyhal Денис Шмигаль Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1975)	—	4 March 2020	Incumbent	4 years, 264 days	Independent	Shmyhal	SP • Independents

Timeline

Notes

^† Died in office / ^

^ a: The "Yulia Tymoshenko" and "Our Ukraine" Blocs left the government on 6 April 2007.

^ b: Yatsenyuk was a member of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" until September 10, 2014.

Acting/unrecognised government

Resistance government against Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Nazi-occupied Ukraine)

Note: Concept of "government coalition" was reverted in 2014 by reestablishment of the 2004 constitutional amendments. Before 2004 and between 2010 and 2014, government was based on "parliamentary majority".

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List of prime ministers of Ukraine
Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1920)	Volodymyr Vynnychenko Vsevolod Holubovych Mykola Sakhno-Ustymovych¹ Mykola Vasylenko¹ Fedir Lyzohub Serhii Gerbel Volodymyr Chekhivskyi Serhii Ostapenko Borys Martos Isaak Mazepa Vyacheslav Prokopovych
Council of Ministers	Yevgenia Bosch¹ Mykola Skrypnyk Georgy Pyatakov Christian Rakovsky Vlas Chubar Panas Lyubchenko Mykhailo Bondarenko Mykola Marchak¹ Demyan Korotchenko Leonid Korniyets Nikita Khrushchev Demyan Korotchenko Nikifor Kalchenko Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Ivan Kazanets Volodymyr Shcherbytsky Oleksandr Liashko Vitaliy Masol Kostyantyn Masyk¹ Vitold Fokin
Government (in exile)	Andriy Livytskyi Pylyp Pylypchuk Andriy Livytskyi Vyacheslav Prokopovych Oleksander Shulhyn Vyacheslav Prokopovych Andriy Yakovliv Kostiantyn Pankivskyi Isaak Mazepa Stepan Baran Spyrydon Dovhal Symon Sozontiv Mykola Livytskyi Spyrydon Dovhal Atanas Figol Spyrydon Dovhal Vasyl Fedoronchuk Teofil Leontiy Ivan Kedryn-Rudnytskyi Teofil Leontiy Yaroslav-Bohdan Rudnytsky Ivan Samiylenko
Cabinet of Ministers	Vitold Fokin Valentyn Symonenko¹ Leonid Kuchma Yukhym Zvyahilsky¹ Vitaliy Masol Yevhen Marchuk Pavlo Lazarenko Vasyl Durdynets¹ Valeriy Pustovoitenko Viktor Yushchenko Anatoliy Kinakh Viktor Yanukovych Mykola Azarov¹ Viktor Yanukovych Mykola Azarov¹ Yulia Tymoshenko Yuriy Yekhanurov Viktor Yanukovych Yulia Tymoshenko Oleksandr Turchynov¹ Mykola Azarov Serhiy Arbuzov¹ Oleksandr Turchynov¹ Arseniy Yatsenyuk Volodymyr Groysman Oleksiy Honcharuk Denys Shmyhal
¹ denotes acting