Mykola Stakhovsky

Mykola Anatoliiovych Stakhovsky (Микола Ананійович Стаховський) (May 22, 1879 in Stetkivtsi, Zhytomyr oblast — December 7, 1948 in Prague) was a Ukrainian diplomat, politician, and medic. He served as the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom in 1919.

Mykola Stakhovsky graduated from Warsaw University, medical faculty in 1904.

In 1904-1905 — he served with the Red Cross in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang.

In 1906 — he published ″Borotba″, an official periodical publication of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party in Kyiv.

In 1906-1908 — he continued his medical studies in Paris.

In 1909-1914 — he practised medicine in Vinnytsia.

In 1914-1917 — he continued his medical career in Proskuriv.

In May 1917 — after the establishment of the Ukrainian Central Rada, he was appointed provincial commissioner of Podillia.