Answer the following question: Facts:   - death place: tarnów , poland    - death date: august 1 , 1931    - allegiance: russian empire    - commands: russian empire 1914 8th army      - birth date: december 6 , 1871    - unit: 4th army    - name: mykola yunakiv    - image: file : junakiw mykola.jpg    - birth place: chuhuiv , kharkov governorate , russian empire   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of mykola yunakiv .
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mykola yunakiv -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- december 6 , 1871 chuhuiv , kharkov governorate -- august 1 , 1931 tarnów , poland -rrb- was a ukrainian general , military pedagogue .he was a general in the army of the russian empire and the ukrainian people 's republic .yunakiv finished the nicholas general staff academy in saint petersburg -lrb- 1894 -- 1897 -rrb- .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 the 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 .only in august 1919 he was appointed as a chief of joint staff for the both ukrainian armies during the counter advance onto kiev and odessa .on october 10 , 1919 yunakiv was promoted to major general and during the following year briefly served as a minister of defense and a 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 ' .