State Secretariat of

West Ukrainian People's Republic The West Ukrainian People's Republic (; West Ukrainian People's Republic#Name, see other names) was a short-lived state that controlled most of Eastern Galicia from November 1918 to July 1919. It included major cities of Lviv, Ternopil, Kolom ...

(WUPR, ZUNR) — the highest executive and administrative body WUPR, the

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...

of the republic. Created in

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on November 9, 1918 UNCouncil ZUNR. The First Head of the State Secretariat —

Kost Levytsky Kost Antonovych Levytsky (; 18 November 1859 – 12 November 1941) was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian politician. He was a leader of the Ukrainian National Democratic Alliance in the Second Polish Republic and the head of the Council of Seniors of a ...

, State Secretary of Finance. State secretaries (ministers): * Military Affairs —

Dmytro Vitovsky Dmytro Vitovsky (; 8 November 1887 – 2 or 4 August 1919) was a Ukrainian politician and military leader. Vitovsky was born into a family of gentry in the village of Medukha in Galicia (today in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion). He graduated from the S ...

, * Internal Affairs — Lonhyn Tsehelsky, * Foreign Affairs — Vasyl Paneyko, Stepan Vytvytsky;

Mykhailo Lozynsky Mykhailo Lozynsky (; 30 July 1880 – 3 November 1937) he was Ukrainian politician, theater critic and diplomat. Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the State Secretariat of the West Ukrainian People's Republic (1919). Education Lozynsky was bo ...

— Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs (1919). * Judiciary — Sydir Holubovych, * Land Affairs — Stepan Baran, Mykhaylo Martynets * Trade and fisheries — Yaroslav Lytvynovych, * Ways — Ivan Myron, * Post and Telegraph — Olexandr Pisetsky, * Health — Ivan Kurovets, * Education and religion —

Oleksander Barvinsky Oleksandr Hryhorovych Barvinsky () (June 8, 1847 – December 25, 1926) was an important western Ukrainian cultural figure and politician, a founder of the Christian Social Party in western Ukraine. He also was a member of the Austrian parlia ...

, * Public Works — Ivan Makukh,Makukh, Ivan in the Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 3 (1993)
/ref> * Work and social care — Antin Chernetsky. After the Galician Army left Lviv Galician government from 24 November to 31 December 1918 was in

Ternopil Ternopil, known until 1944 mostly as Tarnopol, is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical regions of Galicia and Podolia. The populatio ...

. Of the 14 state secretaries could come from the city K. Levytsky, D. Vitovsky, S. Holubovyvh, Ivan Makuch, I. Myron, W. Paneyko, O. Pisetsky, L. Tsehelsky. Government authority was the newspaper " Ukrainian voice" (from 27 November 1918).

References

Sources

* ''Литвин М., Науменко К''. Історія ЗУНР.— Львів: Інститут українознавства НАНУ, видавнича фірма «Олір», 1995.— 368 с., іл. * ''Павлишин О. Рада державних секретарів'' /
Західно-Українська Народна Республіка 1918-1923. Енциклопедія. Т. 3
П - С. Івано-Франківськ: Манускрипт-Львів, 2020. С. 290-293.

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