Background
Officially, Mykola Stasyuk was born into a family of serviceman from Yekaterinoslav Governorate.
Officially, Mykola Stasyuk was born into a family of serviceman from Yekaterinoslav Governorate.
Some sources write his name as Mykola Mykolayovych Stasyuk (Tetyana Ostashko in Handbook on History of Ukraine), others - Mykola Mykhailovych Stasyuk (Mykola Chaban). Mykola Chaban, however, found some information about a student Nikolai Mikhailovich Stasyukov at the Saint St. Petersburg Mining Institute, which is very similar with biography of the Ukrainian minister Mykola Stasyuk. According to Chaban, Stasyukov was born on May 16, 1885 in Yekaterinoslav.
His father nobleman Mikhail Stefanovich Stasyukov was a veterinary doctor.
His mother was called Yekaterina Naumovna Konoplia. The boy was baptized on May 23, 1885 at Holy Trinity Church in Yekaterinoslav.
The date of Stasyuk birth noted at the St. Petersburg archives was confirmed by the state archives documents of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast where survived metric books for the 1885th year. On August 24, 1894 Stasyuk entered the Katerynoslav realschule from which he graduated on June 5, 1901 finishing a complete course of studies at the school general department.
From August 18, 1901 to June 5, 1902 Stasyuk took additional class at the school.
Remarkable is that his father also graduated the school 20 years before him. As historical outline of the realschule testifies, Mikhail Stasyukov graduated from the general department in 1882 and in 1883, next year, he finished the additional seventh class of chemistry-technological department.
He was a member of the first government of Ukraine and the Central Council of Ukraine, prominent cooperator, writer, and memoirist, a chairman of the Ukrainian Peasants Union.