People · Kyivans in history

Famous KyivansStatesmen

Princes and saints, poets and aviators, patrons and adventurers — people who were born, lived or worked in Kyiv. Biographies, addresses and places to visit.

56 people
11 categories
12 centuries (X–XXI c.)

Statesmen

3 people

Mykhailo HrushevskyHistorian, head of the Central Rada1866–1934Ukraine’s foremost historian, who chaired the Central Rada in 1917–1918 in the Pedagogical Museum on Volodymyrska Street. He lived at 9 Pankivska Street, now his memorial museum.
Golda MeirPrime Minister of Israel1898–1978Israel’s fourth prime minister (1969–1974) was born in Kyiv to a carpenter’s family and lived on Baseina Street near Bessarabka until 1903, where a memorial plaque now hangs.
Pavlo SkoropadskyHetman of the Ukrainian State1873–1945Proclaimed hetman in Kyiv on 29 April 1918, in seven and a half months he founded the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, the National Library and the State Ukrainian University in the capital.