Mykola Yunakiv

Mykola Yunakiv
Born December 6, 1871
Chuhuiv, Russian Empire
Died August 1, 1931
Tarnów, Poland
Allegiance

 Russian Empire

Ukrainian People's Republic
Service/branch

Russian Empire Imperial Russian Army

Ukrainian People's Army
Years of service

Russian Empire 1894—1917

1917—1921
Rank General
Unit 4th Army
Commands held

Russian Empire 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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