Heorhiy Afanasyev

Heorhij Afanasjew before 1925

Heorhiy Omeljanowytsch Afanasyev ( Ukrainian Георгій Омелянович Афанасьєв ; Russian Георгий Емельянович Афанасьев / Georgi Yemelyanovich Afanasyev * 28. February 1848 in Ufa , Orenburg Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 15. December 1925 in Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was a Ukrainian historian, journalist and Politician. He was Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian State from November 14, 1918 to December 14, 1918 .

Life

Heorhij Afanasjew went to school in Orenburg and then studied from 1865 to 1869 at the New Russian University in Odessa . After completing his studies, he got a job in the Department of General History at the university to prepare for a professorship, while teaching history at a private girls' school. In 1877/78 he headed the political department of "Pravda" in Odessa, where he published more than 200 articles. From 1879 he was the director of the Odessa Mutual Credit Society. In 1885 he received his doctorate at the University of Kiev and in the same year received an assistant professorship at the New Russian University in Odessa.

In 1896 he was appointed director of the Kiev branch of the Russian State Bank and remained so until 1918. During this time, he also suggested the construction of the building that is now the National Bank of Ukraine .

After the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic was overthrown on April 29, 1918 , the new ruler Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyj brought him into his government on May 3, 1918, and from November 1918 to December 14, 1918 he was Foreign Minister of the Ukrainian State. After the collapse of the state, he emigrated to Serbia and was elected professor at the University of Belgrade , where he worked until his death in 1925.

Web links

• Biography Heorhiy Afanasyev ; on the website of the Historical Institute of Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Heorhij Afanasjew in Brockhaus-Efron ; accessed on November 25, 2016 (Russian)
2. ^ Heorhij Afanasjew in the Historical Lexicon on slovariki.org; accessed on November 25, 2016 (Russian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Article on Heorhij Afanasjew in Gazeta of May 28, 2004; accessed on November 25, 2016 (Russian)