Borys Martos

Borys Mykolayovych Martos Борис Миколайович Мартос
5th Chairman of People's Ministers
In office April 9, 1919 – August 27, 1919
President	Directorate
Preceded by	Serhiy Ostapenko
Succeeded by	Isaak Mazepa
Minister of Food Provisions
In office December 26, 1918 – February 13, 1919
Prime Minister	Volodymyr Chekhivsky
Preceded by	G. Glinka (Ukrainian State)
Succeeded by	I. Feschenko-Chopivsky (as Minister of Economy)
Secretary of Agrarian Affairs
In office June 28, 1917 – August 14, 1917
Prime Minister	Volodymyr Vynnychenko
Preceded by	position created
Succeeded by	M.Savchenko-Bilsky
Personal details
Born	(1879-05-20)May 20, 1879 Hradyzk, Kremenchugsky Uyezd, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	September 19, 1977(1977-09-19) (aged 98) Bound Brook, New Jersey, United States
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	USDRP (1905)
Spouse(s)	M.Kucheryavenko
Alma mater	Kharkiv University (1908)
Occupation	Politician/Activist/Pedagogue

Borys Mykolayovych Martos (Ukrainian: Борис Миколайович Мартос) (May 20, 1879 – September 19, 1977)^[1][2] was a Ukrainian politician, pedagogue, and economist.

Biography[]

Martos was born in Hradyzk, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire) into noble family of Ossorya coat of arms.

Martos graduated from Lubny Classic gymnasium in 1897 and enrolled into the Mathematics Department of the Kharkiv University. There Martos became a member of a secret Ukrainian student hromada of Kharkiv. Here in 1900 in Kharkiv he met with Symon Petliura and his future wife M. Kucheryavenko. In the summer of 1900 Martos participated in the First Ukrainian Student Congress in Halychyna.

He was arrested three times for collaboration with the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party. After graduating and until 1917 Martos worked in several different places: a co-ed in Volyn, a financial director at the board, a director of the , and a cooperative instructor for the Poltava Governorate zemstvo (1913–1917). In 1917 Martos served on numerous official positions as delegate in the Central Rada and its Executive Committee (Mala Rada), and the General Secretariat. After the Hetman coup-d'etat worked as a cooperator. During that time Martos was heading the Central Ukrainian Cooperative Committee as its executive director as well working at the board of directors for the , giving lectures at the Kyiv Commercial Institute, and had established the .

Under the Directorate of Ukraine, he served as the chairman of the Council of People's Ministers of the Ukrainian People's Republic from April 9, to August 27, 1919. In 1917-1918 Martos was a member of the Central Rada and the Secretary of Agrarian Affairs. In 1918 he also was heading the All-Ukrainian Cooperative Committee.

In 1920 Martos emigrated to Czechoslovakia, where he used to teach in the Ukrainian management Academy in Prague. He died on 19 September 1977, and is buried in New Jersey, United States.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Borys Martos at Encyclopedia of Ukraine.com (in English)
• Biography at the government portal of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)