Ivan Kraskovsky

Ivan Kraskovsky (Belarusian: Іван Краскоўскі, Ivan Kraskouski, Іван Красковський), (24 June 1880, Dubicze Cerkiewne, Bielsk – 1955) was a Ukrainian-Belarusian politician active in the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists[1] and earlier in the Belarusian Socialist Assembly.

Kraskovsky was a student at Warsaw University. He was appointed to the All-Russian Union of Cities in 19. Following the February Revolution of 1917 he was a gubernial commissioner of the Russian Provisional Government in the Ternopil region.[1] Then in January 1918 he became a deputy minister of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) serving under Volodymyr Vynnychenko.[1] Under the Hetman government he was a member of the Council of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, becoming the diplomatic representative of the UNR in Georgia and Kuban.[1]

In 1920 he moved to Belarus. Here he was appointed as a lecturer at the Belarusian State University.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Kraskovsky, Ivan". Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Retrieved 11 November 2016.


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