Serhiy Ostapenko
Prime Minister of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1881-1937)
Serhiy Stepanovych Ostapenko (Ukrainian: Сергій Степанович Остапенко; 18 November [O.S. 6 November] 1881 – 1937) was a Ukrainian economist, statesman, and political activist. In early 1919 he served as Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers of Ukrainian People's Republic, a position equivalent to the present-day office of Prime Minister of Ukraine.
Early years
Ostapenko was born in November 1881 in the village of Troianiv, near Zhytomyr. Ostapenko was born into a family of poor peasants and his father had another job as a freight transporter. From 1893 to 1897, Ostapenko attended the local elementary school, after which, he enrolled into an agrarian middle school in Bilokrynytsia of Kremenets uyezd.
In 1904, he started working as a teacher in a two-grade school of Turiysk of Kovel uyezd. In 1905, Ostapenko was arrested for being a member of the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party. He spent the next three years in jail for "political reasons", as he claimed. After his release, Ostapenko had some trouble of finding employment. He graduated from the Vladimir Cadet Corps after final tests in 1909 and the same year enrolled into the Economic school of Kyiv Commercial Institute (now Kyiv National Economic University).
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