High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk (Ukrainian: Микола Олексійович Скрипник, January 25 , 1872–July 7, 1933) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic`s independence, and led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine. When the policy was reversed and he was removed from his position, he committed suicide rather than be forced to recant his policies in a show trial. He also was the Head of the Ukrainian People`s Commissariat, the post of the today`s Prime-Minister.