List of Prime Ministers of Ukraine

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The Prime Minister of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Прем'єр-міністр України, Prem'ier-ministr Ukrayiny) is Ukraine's head of government presiding over the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which is the highest body of the executive branch of the Ukrainian government.

Since Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been 15 Prime Ministers (19 counting acting PMs). Mykola Azarov is the incumbent Prime Minister since his confirmation on March 11, 2010. Unlike the President of Ukraine, who is directly elected by popular vote every five years, the Prime Minister is appointed by the President upon the ratification of the candidate by the parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.

Ukrainian People's Republic (1917-1921)

Chairman of the General Secretariat

• Volodymyr Vynnychenko (28 June 1917 - 13 August 1917)
• Dmytro Doroshenko (14 August 1917 - 18 August 1917) (government was not confirmed)
• Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1 September 1917 - 22 January 1918)

Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers

• Volodymyr Vynnychenko (22 January 1918 - 31 January 1918)
• Vsevolod Holubovych (31 January - 29 April 1918)

Otaman of the Council of People's Ministers

• Mykola Sakhno-Ustymovych (29–30 April 1918) (replaced as was unable to form the government)
• Mykola Vasylenko (30 April - 20 May 1918) (acting)
• Fedir Lyzohub (20 May - 14 November 1918)
• Serhiy Gerbel (14 November - 14 December 1918)

Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers

• Vacant (14 December - 26 December - 1918) (change of power)
• Volodymyr Chekhivsky (26 December 1918 - 13 February 1919)
• Serhiy Ostapenko (13 February - 9 April 1919)
• Borys Martos (9 April - 27 August 1919)
• Isaak Mazepa (27 August 1919 - 26 May 1920) (1st time)
• Vyacheslav Prokopovych (26 May - 14 October 1920) (1st time)

Note: According to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine the government of Prokopovych was the last one before going into exile.

Ukrainian People's Republic in Exile (1921-1992)

Prime Ministers

Most of representatives were members of the Ukrainian Radical Democratic Party (former Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists). They were supported by Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party and Ukrainian National Democratic Party (Alliance). In opposition to them were the Ukrainian Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, the Ukrainian Union of Farmers-Statesmen (Hetmanists), the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and, of course, the Communists.

in Paris

• Andriy Livytskyi (14 October - 18 November 1920) (transitional period)
• Andriy Livytskyi (18 November 1920 - 24 March 1921) (1st time)
• Vyacheslav Prokopovych (24 May 1926 - 5 August 1921) (2nd time)
• Pylyp Pylypchuk (5 August 1921 - 14 January 1922)
• Andriy Livytskyi (14 January 1922 - 25 May 1926) (2nd time)
• Vyacheslav Prokopovych (25 May 1926 - October 1939) (3rd time)
• Oleksandr Shulhyn (October 1939 - May 1940)

in Prague

• Andrii Yakovliv (1944–1945) (acting)

in Munich

• Kost Pankivskiy (1945–1948)
• Isaak Mazepa (19 July 1948 - January1952) (2nd time)
• Stepan Baran (January 1952 - 4 June 1953)
• Spyrydon Dovhal (1954) (1st time)
• Symon Sozontiv (1954–1957)
• Mykola Livytskyi (1957–1967)
• Atanas Figol (22 March 1967 - 1969)
• Spyrydon Dovhal (1969–1972) (2nd time)
• Vasyl' Fedoronchuk (1972–1974)
• Teofil Leontiy (1974–1980)
• Yaroslav Bohdan Rudnycky (1980–1989)
• Ivan Samiylenko (1989–1992)

Western Ukrainian People's Republic

State Secretariat of ZUNR (1918–1923)

All representatives were members of the leading party the Ukrainian National Democratic Party.

• Kost Levytsky (November 9, 1918 - January 4, 1919) (Lviv, Tarnopol)
• Sydir Holubovych (January 4, 1919 - June 9, 1919) (Stanislaviv)
  • Yevhen Petrushevych (June 9, 1919 - August 1, 1920) (as the Dictator of ZUNR) (Kamyanets-Podilsky, later in emigration)
• Yevhen Petrushevych (August 1, 1920 - March 15, 1923) (government in exile) (Vienna)

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919-1991)

All representatives were members of the Communist Party of Soviet Union, due to the "Dictatorship of Proletariat" led by the Communist Party.

Chairman of the People's Secretariat

• Yevgenia Bogdanovna (Gotlieb) Bosh (30 December 1917 - 9 March 1918) (acting)
• Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk (9 March 1918 - 18 April 1918)
  • Uprising Nine
  • Andrei Bubnov (July 12, 1918 - November 28, 1918) (as Chairman of the All-Ukrainian Central Military Revolutionary Committee)

Chairman of the Provisional Workers-Peasant Government

• Heorhiy Leonidovych Piatakov (28 November 1918 - 16 January 1919)
• Khristian Georgievich Rakovsky (16 January 1919 - 29 January 1919) (moved to Kharkiv from Kursk)

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

• Khristian Georgievich Rakovsky (29 January - 11 December 1919)
  • Hryhorii Ivanovych Petrovsky (11 December 1919 - 19 February 1920) (Due to advance of the Denikin's and Polish Armies the functions of both the VUTsVK and the Council of People's Commissar's was performed by the All-Ukrainian Central Military Revolutionary Committee)
• Khristian Georgievich Rakovsky (19 February 1920 - 15 July 1923) (resumed)
• Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar (15 July 1923 - 28 April 1934)
• Panas Petrovych Lyubchenko (28 April 1934 - 30 August 1937)
• Mykhailo Ilich Bondarenko (30 August - 13 October 1937)
• Mykola Makarovych Marchak (13 October 1937 - 21 February 1938) (acting)
• Demian Serhiyovych Korotchenko (21 February 1938 - 6 August 1939) (1st time)
• Leonid Romanovych Korniyets (6 August 1939 - 16 February 1944) (in exile in Russian SFSR from 1941 until 1944)
• Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (16 February 1944 - 25 March 1946) (considered himself Ukrainian)

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

• Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (25 March 1946 - 4 March 1947)
• Demian Serhiyovych Korotchenko (4 March 1947 - 15 January 1954) (2nd time)
• Nykyfor Timofiyovych Kalchenko (15 January 1954 - 28 February 1961)
• Volodymyr Vasylyovych Scherbytsky (28 February 1961 - 28 June 1963) (1st time)
• Ivan Pavlovych Kazanets (28 June 1963 - 22 October 1965)
• Volodymyr Vasylyovych Scherbytsky (22 October 1965 - 8 June 1972) (2nd time)
• Oleksandr Pavlovych Liashko (8 June 1972 - 10 July 1987)
• Vitaly Andriyovych Masol (10 July 1987 - 23 October 1990)
• Vitold Pavlovych Fokin (23 October 1990 - 14 November 1990) acting (continued below)

Ukraine (1991-Present)

Prime Ministers

#	Picture	Name	Took office	Left office	Party	Government	Parliament (Election)
—		Vitold Fokin (acting)	23 October 1990	14 November 1990	Communist Party of Ukraine	—	I (1990)
1		Vitold Fokin	14 November 1990	2 October 1992	Non-partisan	Fokin
—		Valentyn Symonenko (acting)	2 October 1992	13 October 1992	Non-partisan
2		Leonid Kuchma	13 October 1992	22 September 1993	Non-partisan	Kuchma
—		Yukhym Zvyahilsky (acting)	22 September 1993	16 June 1994	Non-partisan	—
3		Vitaliy Masol	16 June 1994	1 March 1995	Non-partisan	Masol II	II (1994)
—		Yevhen Marchuk (acting)	1 March 1995	8 June 1995	Non-partisan	—
4		Yevhen Marchuk	8 June 1995	28 May 1996		Marchuk
5		Pavlo Lazarenko	28 May 1996	2 July 1997	Hromada	Lazarenko
—		Vasyl Durdynets (acting)	2 July 1997	30 July 1997	Non-partisan	—
6		Valeriy Pustovoitenko	30 July 1997	22 December 1999	People's Democratic Party	Pustovoitenko
							III (1998)
7		Viktor Yushchenko	22 December 1999	29 May 2001	Non-partisan	Yushchenko
8		Anatoliy Kinakh	29 May 2001	21 November 2002	Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine	Kinakh
							IV (2002)
9		Viktor Yanukovych 1st term	21 November 2002	7 December 2004	Party of Regions	Yanukovych I PR–SDPU(o)
—		Mykola Azarov (acting)	7 December 2004	28 December 2004	Party of Regions
(9)		Viktor Yanukovych 1st term	28 December 2004	5 January 2005	Party of Regions
—		Mykola Azarov (acting)	5 January 2005	24 January 2005	Party of Regions	—
—		Yulia Tymoshenko (acting)	24 January 2005	4 February 2005	All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc)	—
10		Yulia Tymoshenko 1st term	4 February 2005	8 September 2005		Tymoshenko I BYuT–NUNS–SPU–PPPU
—		Yuriy Yekhanurov (acting)	8 September 2005	22 September 2005	People's Union "Our Ukraine"	—
11		Yuriy Yekhanurov	22 September 2005	4 August 2006		Yekhanurov NUNS–SPU
(9)		Viktor Yanukovych 2nd term	4 August 2006	18 December 2007	Party of Regions	Alliance of National Unity PR–KPU–SPU	V (2006)
(10)		Yulia Tymoshenko 2nd term	18 December 2007	4 March 2010	All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc)	Tymoshenko II BYuT–NUNS	VI (2007)
—		Oleksandr Turchynov (acting)	4 March 2010	11 March 2010	All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" (Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc)	—
12		Mykola Azarov	11 March 2010	Incumbent	Party of Regions	Azarov PR–BL–KPU

Timeline

See also

• List of Ukrainian rulers
• President of Ukraine