Mykola Skrypnyk

Mykola Skrypnyk
Микола Скрипник
Chairman of the People's Secretariat of Ukraine
In office 4 March 1918 – 18 April 1918
President	Yukhym Medvedev Volodymyr Zatonsky (chairman of the Central Executive Committee)
Preceded by	Yevgenia Bosch (acting)
Succeeded by	Position abolished reorganized as The Uprising Nine
People's Secretary of Labor Affairs
In office 4 March 1918 – 18 April 1918
Prime Minister	Himself
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
People's Commissar of Internal Affairs
In office July 1921 – April 1922
Prime Minister	Christian Rakovsky
People's Commissar of Justice
In office April 1922 – 1927
Prime Minister	Christian Rakovsky
Preceded by	Mikhail Vyetoshkin
Succeeded by	Vasyl Poraiko
Prosecutor General of Ukraine
In office 1922–1927
President	Grigory Petrovsky
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Vasyl Poraiko
People's Commissar of Education
In office March 1927 – February 1933
Prime Minister	Vlas Chubar
Head of Derzhplan UkrSSR
In office February 1933 – 7 July 1933
Prime Minister	Vlas Chubar
Preceded by	Yakym Dudnyk
Succeeded by	Yuriy Kotsiubynsky
Personal details
Born	(1872-01-25)25 January 1872 Yasynuvata, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
Died	7 July 1933(1933-07-07) (aged 61) Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party	RSDLP (1901–1903) RSDLP (Bolsheviks) (1903–1918) VKP(b) (1918–1933)
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology

Mykola Oleksiiovych Skrypnyk (Ukrainian: Микола Олексійович Скрипник; 25 January [O.S. 13 January] 1872 – 7 July 1933), was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and later led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine. When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to recant his policies in a show trial. He also was the Head of the Ukrainian People's Commissariat, equivalent to the modern-day position of Prime Minister of Ukraine.