Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky

Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky
Михаил Туган-Барановский
Secretary of Finance
In office
August 13, 1917  November 20, 1917
Prime MinisterVolodymyr Vynnychenko
Preceded byKhrystofor Baranovsky
Succeeded byVasyl Mazurenko (temporary)
Personal details
Born(1865-01-20)January 20, 1865
Solone, Kupyansky Uyezd, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedJanuary 21, 1919(1919-01-21) (aged 54)
Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Ukrainian People's Republic
Political partyCadet (until 1917), UPSF
Alma materKharkov University
Occupationacademician, statesman, public activist

Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky (Russian: Михаил Иванович Туган-Барановский; Ukrainian: Михайло Іванович Туган-Барановський, romanized: Mykhailo Ivanovych Tuhan-Baranovskyi; January 20, 1865 - January 21, 1919) was a Russian and Ukrainian Marxist, economist, and politician.

He was a leading exponent of Legal Marxism in the Russian Empire and was the author of numerous works dealing with the theory of value, the distribution of a social revenue, history of managerial development, and fundamentals of cooperative managerial activities.

After the Russian Revolution, he was a founder of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and one of the earliest Ukrainian ministers of finances in Volodymyr Vynnychenko's General Secretariat of the Central Council of Ukraine.