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Mykola Stakhovsky

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Mykola Stakhovsky
Микола Стаховський
Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom
In office
January 1919 – September 1919
PresidentSymon Petliura
Succeeded byArnold D. Margolin
Personal details
Born(1879-05-22)22 May 1879
Stetkivtsi, Zhytomyr oblast
Died7 December 1948(1948-12-07) (aged 69)
Prague
Alma materWarsaw University

Mykola Stakhovsky (Микола Стаховський) (May 22, 1879 in Stetkivtsi, Zhytomyr oblast — December 7, 1948 in Prague) was a Ukrainian diplomat, politician, and medic. He served as the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1919.

Education

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Mykola Stakhovsky graduated from Warsaw University, medical faculty in 1904.

Career

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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.[1]

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 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.

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