Mykola Yunakiv, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Mykola Yunakiv

Ukrainian general

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1871

Place of Birth: Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 11-Aug-1931

Profession: military personnel, politician, historian

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Mykola Yunakiv

  • Mykola Yunakiv (Ukrainian: ?????? ??????) (December 6, 1871 Chuhuiv, Kharkov Governorate – August 1, 1931 TarnĂłw, Poland) was a Ukrainian general, military pedagogue.
  • He was a general in the army of the Russian Empire and the Ukrainian People's Republic. Yunakiv finished the Nicholas General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg (1894–1897).
  • In 1910 he defended his dissertation on the Swedish campaign in Ukraine 1708-09 and year later became a professor of a military history.
  • In 1914 Yunakiv was pressured to resign after his implementation of teaching reforms found no support in the academy. During the World War I Yunakiv was appointed as a chief of staff serving for the Russian 4th Army and later a commander of the 8th Army fighting on the Romanian Front.
  • In a critical period in the history of the Ukrainian People's Republic in December 1917 he joined the Ukrainian military administration as a head of the education department. Only in August 1919 he was appointed as a chief of joint staff for the both Ukrainian armies during the counter advance onto Kiev and Odessa.
  • On October 10, 1919 Yunakiv was promoted to Major General and during the following year briefly served as a minister of defense and a head of the Supreme Military Council of Ukraine.
  • Later he emigrated to Poland where he was a member of the Ukrainian Military History Society and the editorial collective of Za derzhavnist’.

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