Mykola Yunakiv (Ukrainian: Микола Леонтійович Юнаків) (6 December 1871 Chuguev, Kharkov Governorate – 1 August 1931 Tarnów, Poland) was a Ukrainian general, military pedagogue. He was a general in the army of the Russian Empire and the Ukrainian People's Republic.

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Mykola Yunakiv
Born6 December 1871
Chuguev, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1 August 1931 (1931-09) (aged 59)
Tarnów, Poland
Allegiance Russian Empire
Ukrainian People's Republic
Service / branchRussian Empire Imperial Russian Army
Ukrainian People's Army
Years of serviceRussian Empire 1894—1917
1917—1921
RankGeneral
Unit4th Army
CommandsRussian Empire 8th Army
Supreme Military Council of Ukraine
Battles / wars
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Yunakiv finished the Nicholas General Staff Academy in Saint Petersburg (1894–1897). In 1910 he defended his dissertation on the Swedish campaign in Ukraine 1708-09 and year later became a professor of a military history. In 1914 Yunakiv was pressured to resign after his implementation of teaching reforms found no support in the academy.

During World War I Yunakiv was appointed as a chief of staff serving for the Russian 4th Army and later a commander of the 8th Army fighting on the Romanian Front. In a critical period in the history of the Ukrainian People's Republic in December 1917 he joined the Ukrainian military administration as a head of the education department.

In August 1919 he was appointed as a chief of joint staff for both the Ukrainian armies during the counter advance onto Kiev and Odessa. On 10 October 1919 Yunakiv was promoted to Major General and during the following year briefly served as minister of defense and as head of the Supreme Military Council of Ukraine. Later he emigrated to Poland where he was a member of the Ukrainian Military History Society and the editorial collective of Za derzhavnist’.

Preceded by General Bulawa
Deputy Chief Otaman

August 1919 - end 1919
Succeeded by
Preceded by
V.Salsky
Minister of Defense
1920
Succeeded by
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