Mykola Stakhovsky

Mykola Stakhovsky (Микола Стаховський) (May 22, 1879 in Stetkivtsi, Zhytomyr oblast — December 7, 1948 in Prague) was a Ukrainian diplomat, politician, and medic. He served as the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1919.

Education
Mykola Stakhovsky graduated from Warsaw University, medical faculty in 1904.

Career
In 1904-1905 — he served with the Red Cross in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang.

In 1906 — he published ″Borotba″, an official periodical publication of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party in Kyiv.

In 1906-1908 — he continued his medical studies in Paris.

In 1909-1914 — he practised medicine in Vinnytsia.

In 1914-1917 — he continued his medical career in Proskuriv.

In May 1917 — after the establishment of the Ukrainian Central Rada, he was appointed provincial commissioner of Podillia.

28 January 1919 to September 1919 — he was as the first head of the diplomatic mission of the Ukrainian People's Republic in London.

In 1920-1922 — he practised medicine in Paris and in Berlin.

In 1924-1939 — he practised medicine in Berehovo, where he was also one of the leading organizers of Ukrainian cultural life.

In 1939-1945 — he practised in Rumburk, Czechoslovakia.

December 7, 1948 — died in Prague and is buried in the Olšany Cemetery.