Mykyta Shapoval

Mykyta Shapoval (1882–1932) was a Ukrainian political and civic leader, sociologist, journalist and poet. He was born on 8 June (26 May, old style) 1882 in the village of Sribnianka in the Bakhmut area (Donetsk region). He trained in forestry. He was a leader of the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries and a member of the Central Rada for Bakhmut county. In 1919 he served in the government of the Directorate of the Ukrainian People's Republic. In emigration he settled in Czechoslovakia. In Prague, with the support of President Tomáš Masaryk, he headed the Ukrainian Civic Committee (1921–1925). The committee founded the Ukrainian Husbandry Academy in Poděbrady and helped to create other Ukrainian schools and research bodies in Czechoslovakia. Shapoval published the monthly «Nova Ukraina» and founded the Ukrainian Sociological Institute in Prague. He died on 25 February 1932 in Řevnice near Prague.

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