Mykola Porsh

Mykola Volodymyrovych Porsh (Ukrainian: Микола Володимирович Порш; 19 October 1879 – 16 April 1944) was a political and civil activist of Ukraine, economist, member of the Russian Constituent Assembly.Porsh was an active member of the Central Council of Ukraine and a General Secretary (minister) of Labor and Military Affairs.In 1906 along with number of other future political leaders (Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Symon Petliura) he created the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party.In 1917 Mykola Porsh was elected to the Central Council of Ukraine and in November 1917 he was appointed as the General Secretary of Military Affairs.On 27 July 1918, along with Symon Petliura, Mykola Porsh was arrested as a representative of leftist movements that were involved with created at the People's Administrations Society an organization, goal of which was an armed revolt to overthrow the existing government of the Ukrainian State.
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