The Lyzohub Government was the first official government of Ukrainian State that was confirmed on 4 May 1918 after Pavlo Skoropadsky managed to oust the previous socialist government led by Vsevolod Holubovych and dissolve the Central Council of Ukraine. Most of its candidates were already pre-selected by Mykola Vasylenko who took the portfolio of Minister of National Education.
On October 5, 1918 the opposition represented by the Ukrainian National Union and led by Volodymyr Vynnychenko demanded almost half of government portfolios, but managed to convince the Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadsky to include five of its own ministers. On October 24 that petition was approved. The same day several dismissed ministers wrote the "Statement of niners" where they urged the government to sign federalization agreement with Russia.
Original composition
edit| Office | Name minister | Party |
|---|---|---|
| Otaman | Fedir Lyzohub | Octobrists |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | Dmytro Doroshenko | Socialist-Federalists |
| Minister of Military Affairs | Oleksandr Rohoza | |
| Minister of Naval Affairs | M.Maksymov | |
| Minister of Internal Affairs | Fedir Lyzohub | (same) |
| Minister of Finance | Anton Rzepecki | Cadets |
| Minister of Trade | Sergei Hutnik | Cadets |
| Minister of Labor | Yuliy Wagner | |
| Minister of Ways of Communication | Borys Butenko | Ukrainian People's Society |
| Minister of Food | Yuriy Sokolovsky | Cadets |
| Minister of Justice | Mykhailo Chubynsky | Cadets |
| Minister of Confessions | Vasiliy Zienkowski | |
| Minister of Health and Wardship | Vsevolod Lyubynsky | Ukrainian People's Society |
| Minister of National Education | Mykola Vasylenko | Cadets |
| Minister of Agriculture | Vasiliy Kolokoltsov | |
| State controller | Yuriy Afanasiev | |
| State secretary | Ihor Kistiakovsky |
Changes
edit- During summer
- Yuriy Sokolovsky was replaced with Sergei Gerbel as the Minister of Food
- Mykhailo Chubynsky was replaced with A.Romanov as the Minister of Justice
- Fedir Lyzohub was relieved from being acting as the Minister of Internal Affairs which was passed to Ihor Kistiakovsky
- S.Zavadsky became the State secretary
- October 24, UNU coalition
- Ihor Kistiakovsky was replaced with acting Viktor Reinbot
- Vasiliy Zienkowski was replaced with Oleksandr Lototsky
- Mykola Vasylenko was replaced with Petro Stebnytsky
- Vasiliy Kolokoltsov was replaced with Volodymyr Leontovych
- A.Romanov was replaced with Andriy Vyazlov
- Yuliy Wagner was replaced with Maksym Slavinsky
- Sergei Hutnik was replaced with Sergei Mering
- Yuriy Afanasiev was replaced with S.Petrov
Coalition / opposition
edit- Pro-Russian: Vasylenko, Rzepecki, Grebel, Hutnik, Romanov, Zienkowski, Kokoltsev, Wagner, Afanasiev, Zavadsky
- Union with the Triple Entente, plebiscite for the union with Russia
- Pro-Ukrainian: Kistiakovsky, Lyubynsky, Doroshenko, Butenko, Rohoza
- Denouncing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty, complete independence