Mykola Yunakiv

Mykola Yunakiv

Born	December 6, 1871 Chuhuiv, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	August 1, 1931 Tarnów, Poland
Allegiance	Russian Empire Ukrainian People's Republic
Service/branch	Imperial Russian Army Ukrainian People's Army
Years of service	1894—1917 1917—1921
Rank	General
Unit	4th Army
Commands held	8th Army Supreme Military Council of Ukraine
Battles/wars	World War I Romanian Campaign Russian Civil War

Mykola Yunakiv (Ukrainian: Микола Юнаків) (December 6, 1871 Chuhuiv, Kharkov Governorate – August 1, 1931 Tarnów, 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’.

Preceded by Oleksander Osetsky	General Bulawa Deputy Chief Otaman August 1919 - end 1919	Succeeded by Volodymyr Sinclair
Preceded by V.Salsky	Minister of Defense 1920	Succeeded by ?

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Chiefs of the General Staff of Ukraine 1918-1921

Oleksander Slyvynsky Oleksander Hrekov Oleksander Osetsky Mykola Yunakiv Volodymyr Sinclair Symon Petlyura Vsevolod Petriv Vasyl Tyutyunyk Volodymyr Salsky

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