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Fedir Petrovych Shvets (Ukrainian: Фе́дір Петро́вич Швець; 11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1882 – 20 June 1940) was a Ukrainian geologist, public activist, and politician. He served as a member of the Directorate of Ukraine from its establishment in November 1918 until his removal in May 1920, representing the peasantry.

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Sources Малий словник історії України (Small dictionary of history of Ukraine), editor Valeriy Smoliy. "Lybid", Kyiv; 1997.

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Biography Shvets was born on 11 November [O.S. 30 October] 1882, 1882, in Zhabotyn, Cherkassky Uyezd. From 1909, after finishing the Natural Studies College of the University of Tartu continued to work as an assistant at the Department of Geology. He actively participated in all the activities that took place in the university, and until 1916, was also teaching at the local gymnasium. In 1915, he was appointed as a docent of the academic department of paleontology and while conducting research in the Crimean peninsula and the Caucasus Mountains. In March 1917, Shvets returned to Ukraine. At the Congress of a Ukrainian village representatives (6–7 April 1917) he was elected to the Central Committee (CC) of the Peasant Association from the Cherkassky Uyezd and also to the CC of the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party (UPSR). In June 1917, at the 1st All-Ukrainian Peasant Congress Shvets was elected to the All-Ukrainian Council of Peasant's Deputies which later joined the Central Rada. During the same time he was working in the 2nd Kiev gymnasium and in the organizational committee for the creation of the Ukrainian People's University. In September 1918, he was appointed as a professor of geology in the Ukrainian State University…Citește mai mult