Ruler · 1879 – 1926

Symon Petliura

Lived 1879 – 1926; politician, writer. Chairman of the Directorate of Ukraine of Ukrainian People's Republic, 1919 – 1926.

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Lived: 1879 – 1926; 47 years
In office: 7 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Ukrainian People's Republic
Left it: killed in office; Wikidata's manner of death

Chairman of the Directorate of Ukraine

Ukrainian People's Republic · the 3rd of 4 dated reigns · 1917 – 1948

Mykhailo Hrushevsky1917 – 1918

Volodymyr Vynnychenko1918 – 1919

Symon Petliura1919 – 1926

Andriy Livytskyi1926 – 1948

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removedleft alive by a regular roadthis entry

Reigned 1919 – 1926 · 7 years · came to it aged 40

Left it: killed in officeWikidata's manner of death: homicide

In 1926, Petliura was assassinated in Paris by Jewish anarchist Sholem Schwarzbard, who had lost relatives in the pogroms.

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