Mykola Liubynsky

Mykola Mykhailovych Liubynsky (Ukrainian: Мико́ла Миха́йлович Люби́нський) (5 October 1891 – 8 January 1938) was a Ukrainian politician and diplomat. He was also Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukrainian National Republic (1918) and a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty.

Mykola Liubynsky Микола Любинський
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
In office March 3, 1918 – April 28, 1918
Prime Minister	Vsevolod Holubovych
Preceded by	Vsevolod Holubovych
Succeeded by	Mykola Vasylenko
Personal details
Born	5 October 1891 Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Died	8 January 1938 Sandarmokh
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Alma mater	University of Kyiv

Education

Mykola Liubynsky graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Kyiv (1916).

Professional career and experience

In April 1917 - he was a member of the Ukrainian Central Rada and the Lesser Rada. Later he headed the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party.

From December 1917 to February 1918 - he was a participant in the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty, where he signed on behalf of the Ukrainian delegation the Appeal to Germany about the need to provide military aid to the Ukrainian National Republic.

In March–April 1918 - he was a member of the Vsevolod Holubovych government.^[1]

From March 3, 1918 - April 28, 1918 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine^[2]

In 1920s - he lived in Kyiv, was a research associate at the Institute of the Ukrainian Scientific Language and co-editor of the Bulletin of the Institute of the Ukrainian Scientific Language.

In 1930 - he was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and five years of internal exile.

November 12, 1937 - He was arrested.

December 15, 1937 - Sentenced to the highest degree of punishment, by a special troika of the Leningrad Regional NKVD Directorate.

January 8, 1938 - he was executed by firing squad in Sandarmokh, Karelia.

Liubynsky was partially rehabilitated in 1989.^[3]