State · 1917 – 1921

Ukrainian People's Republic

A state of 1917 – 1921 — 4 years in Europe. It was replaced by Ukraine, Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets and South Russia and followed by Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and Ukrainian State. The atlas records 35 things within it — wars and battles 10 · unrest and atrocity 2 · treaties 1 · people 22. Its line of rulers holds 4 people.

Wikidata records two foundings, 20 November 1917 and 14 December 1918, and the atlas reads the first. From 29 April to 14 December 1918 the Ukrainian State of Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky governed in its place.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 4 years; 1917 – 1921
Rulers: 4; the Chairman of the Directorate of Ukraine
Most ground: 521,000 km²; in 1919
Within it: 35; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Ukrainian People's Republic in 1919, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Ukrainian People's Republic in 1919, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 521,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic · followed by · 1919 – 1991
Ukrainian State · followed by · 1918
Ukraine · replaced by · 1991 – present
Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets · replaced by · 1917 – 1918
South Russia · replaced by · 1919 – 1920

Rulers

The line of Chairman of the Directorate of Ukraine - the office this state names as its head of state.

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

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Mykhailo Hrushevsky	1917 – 1918	1 year	exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Volodymyr Vynnychenko	1918 – 1919	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Symon Petliura	1919 – 1926	7 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Andriy Livytskyi	1926 – 1948	22 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone

4 rulers, 4 with terms dated as terms, covering 1917 – 1948. Only 31 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 3 of 3 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedFlag of Ukraine (1917–1921) · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedCoat of arms of the Ukrainian People's Republic · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 199932 rows · 10 wars and battles · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres

Marek Edelman · scientist · 1919 – 2009
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky · politician · 1918 – 1990
Isaac Boleslavsky · writer · 1919 – 1977
Unification Act · treaty · 1918
Battle of Kruty · battle · 1918
Isaak Khalatnikov · scientist · 1919 – 2021
Kateryna Yushchenko · scientist · 1919 – 2001
Polina Gelman · politician · 1919 – 2005

and 24 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood4 years
stood longer than 12% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held521,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 75% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
Rulers on record4
has more rulers on record than 58% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 14 causes the record names and 3 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

in the articlelinkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1907 – 1931, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1919, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q243610 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.