Viacheslav Prokopovych

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Kostiantynovych and the family name is Prokopovych.

Viacheslav Kostiantynovych Prokopovych^[a] (Ukrainian: В'ячеслав Костянтинович Прокопович; 1881^[1]–7 June 1942^[2]) was a Ukrainian politician and historian.

Viacheslav Prokopovych
В'ячеслав Прокопович
Prokopovych as depicted on a Ukrainian coin
Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers
In office 26 May 1920 – 14 October 1920
Chairman	Symon Petliura
Preceded by	Isaak Mazepa
Succeeded by	Position abolished (Christian Rakovsky as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars)
Personal details
Born	1881 Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine)
Died	1942 Bessancourt, France
Political party	Ukrainian Democratic Party (from 1905)

Starting in 1905, he was a politician of the Ukrainian Democratic-Radical Party (UDRP), established in Kiev.^[3] At the end of World War I, he was a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists (UPSF) and Central Rada.^[4] In 1918, he served as the minister of education in a cabinet of Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR), headed by Vsevolod Holubovych.^[5] On 26 May 1920, Viacheslav Prokopovych became the prime minister of the UNR until 14 October 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).^[6] In 1925–1939, he was also a founder and chief editor of Tryzub, published in Paris.^[7]

Notes

1. Also rendered as Vyacheslav