Mykola Stakhovsky


Mykola Stakhovsky – is a Ukrainian diplomat, politician, medic. Head of the Ukrainian mission to the United Kingdom.

Education

Mykola Stakhovsky graduated from Warsaw University, faculty of medical.

Career

In 1904 - 1905 - he served with the Red Cross in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang.
In 1906 - he published ″Borotba″, an official periodical publication of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party in Kyiv.
In 1906 - 1908 - he continued his medical studies in Paris
In 1909 - 1914 - he practised medicine in Vinnytsia.
In 1914 - 1917 - he continued his medical career in Proskuriv.
In May 1917 - after the establishment of the Ukrainian Central Rada, he was appointed provincial commissioner of Podillia.
28 January 1919 to September 1919 - he was as the first head of the diplomatic mission of the Ukrainian People's Republic in London
In 1920 - 1922 - he continued his practised medicine in Paris and in Berlin.
In 1924 - 1939 - he practised medicine in Berehovo, where he was also one of the leading organizers of Ukrainian cultural life.
In 1939 - 1945 - he practised in Rumburk, Czechoslovakia.
December 7, 1948 - died in Prague and is buried in the Olšany Cemetery.