title: List of Ministers of Internal Affairs (Ukraine)
text: # List of Ministers of Internal Affairs (Ukraine)
  
  A list of Ministers of Internal Affairs of historical states located on the territory of what is now Ukraine.
  
  ## Ukrainian People's Republic
  
  The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian People's Republic:
  
  * Volodymyr Vynnychenko June 28, 1917 – January 30, 1918 (at first as a secretary of the Russian Provisional Government later as an independent Ministry)
  * Pavlo Khrystiuk January 30, 1918 – February 1918
  * Mykhailo Tkachenko February 1918–April 29, 1918
  * Vyshnevsky April 30, 1918–May 4, 1918
  * Fedir Lyzohub May 4, 1918–November 14, 1918
  * Ihor Kistiakivsky November 14, 1918–December 14, 1918
  * O.Mytsiuk December 26, 1918–February 13, 1919
  * Dmytro Chyzhevsky February 13, 1919–April 9, 1919
  * Isaak Mazepa April 9, 1919–May 26, 1920
  * O.Salikovsky May 26, 1920–in exile
  
  ## Soviet period
  
  * Yevgenia Bosch December 30, 1917 – March 1, 1918 (acting Prime-Minister)
  * Yuriy Kotsiubynsky March 7, 1918 – April 18, 1918 (government disbanded)
  * Vasiliy Averin November 28, 1918–January 29, 1919 (as the Temporary Workers'-Peasants' Government)
  * Kliment Voroshilov (as part of the Russian Narkom)
  * Christian Rakovsky
  * Kin Antonov
  * Mykola Skrypnyk 1921–1922
  * Mantsev 1922–1923
  * Nykolayenko 1923
  * (acting) Buzdalin 1923–1924
  * Vsevolod Balytsky March 1924–December 1930 (ministry disbanded)
  * Vsevolod Balytsky 1934–1937
  * (acting) Vasiliy Ivanov 1937
  * Izrail Leplevsky 1937–1938
  * Oleksandr Uspensky 1938
  * (acting) Amayak Kobulov 1938–1939
  * Ivan Serov 1939–1941
  * Vasyl Serhiyenko 1941–1943
  * 1946–1953 Tymofiy Strokach
  * 1953–1953 Pavlo Meshik
  * 1953–1956 Tymofiy Strokach
  * 1953–1956 Oleksiy Brovkin
  * 1962–1982 Ivan Holovchenko
  * 1982–1990 Ivan Hladush
  * 1990–1991 Andriy Vasylyshyn
  