Chubynsky, Mykhailo

Chubynsky, Mykhailo [Чубинський, Михайло; Čhubyns'kyj, Myxajlo], 19 November 1871 in Boryspil, Poltava gubernia, d 19 January 1943 in Belgrade, Serbia. Criminal jurist, son of Pavlo Chubynsky, professor at Kharkiv University, representative of the sociological school of criminology. Chubynsky contributed to the journal Ukrainskaia zhizn’. Under the Hetman government in 1918 Chubynsky was minister of justice and later the chairman of the Criminal Court in the State Senate. In 1920 he transferred his support to Anton Denikin. After emigrating to Yugoslavia he worked as a professor in Belgrade and Subotica.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]