Vyacheslav (Viacheslav) Kostyantynovych Prokopovych ( uk, В'ячеслав Костянтинович Прокопович) (1881,

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– 1942,

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) was a Ukrainian politician and historian. Starting in 1905, he was a politician of the Ukrainian Democratic-Radical Party (UDRP), established in Kiev. At the end of

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, he was a member of the

Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists Ukrainian Democratic Party (UDP), was a Ukrainian party that existed in Kiev in since 1897 first as a clandestine General Ukrainian nonpartisan democratic organization that grew into a political party just before the 1905 Russian revolution. The 1 ...

(UPSF) and

Central Rada The Central Council of Ukraine ( uk, Українська Центральна Рада, ) (also called the Tsentralna Rada or the Central Rada) was the All-Ukrainian council (soviet) that united deputies of soldiers, workers, and peasants deputie ...

. In 1918, he served as the minister of education in a cabinet of

Ukrainian People's Republic The Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR), or Ukrainian National Republic (UNR), was a country in Eastern Europe that existed between 1917 and 1920. It was declared following the February Revolution in Russia by the First Universal. In March 1 ...

(UNR), headed by

Vsevolod Holubovych Vsevolod Oleksandrovych Holubovych ( uk, Всеволод Олександрович Голубович; February 1885 – 16 May 1939) was the Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic from January to March 1918. Early period Holubov ...

. On 26 May 1920, Viacheslav Prokopovych became the prime minister of the UNR until October 14, 1920. At the beginning of 1921 the government went into exile. The cabinet was headed twice by Prokopovych (March – August 1921, and May 1926 – October 1939). In 1925–1939, he was also a founder and chief editor of ''Tryzub'', published in

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.Chojnowski A., Bruski J.J. (2006). ''Ukraina''. Wyd. Trio, Warszawa.

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1881 births 1942 deaths Politicians from Kyiv People from Kievsky Uyezd Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire 20th-century Ukrainian historians Ukrainian Democratic Party (1904) politicians 20th-century Ukrainian politicians Prime ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic Members of the Ukrainian government in exile Ukrainian emigrants to France {{Ukraine-bio-stub