Petro Kholodnyi

Petro Ivanovych Kholodnyi (; 18 December 1875 – 7 June 1930) was a Ukrainian painter and politician who served as Minister of Public Education from 1918 to 1920 in the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic. He was also a member of the Central Rada, Minister of Public Education of the Ukrainian People's Republic, painter, chemist. He was also an impressionist painter with a tendency to lyricism and a neo-Byzantine painter, a monumentalist, graphic artist, designer of applied art, and teacher. He is the father of the painter Petro Cholodny.

During the Ukrainian Revolution (1917–1921), he worked at the Secretariat of Public Education of the Ukrainian Central Rada and the Ministry of Education.

He headed the Ministry of Education of the UPR Directorate from 26 December 1918 to 2 February 1919 and from 26 May to the end of 1920.

Works Icons and stained-glass windows in the Dormition Church and the iconostasis and polychromy of the chapel of St. Josaphat of the UGCC Theological Seminary and Theological Academy in Lviv (now the academic building of the Geography Faculty of Ivan Franko National University, Doroshenko Street). A number of icons in the churches of the villages: Radelychi, Kholoiiv (now Vuzlove, Radekhiv Raion), Borshchovychi, Zubrets, Vyzhniany. Stained-glass windows of the in Mraznytsia (now a section of Boryslav), created under the supervision of Bohdan Lepkyi). Petro Kholodnyi also used his knowledge of ancient painting techniques to create polychrome paintings on the facade of Saint Nicholas Church (1924, 28 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street), which is a model of Byzantine architecture of the thirteenth century in Lviv, as well as to restore the paintings on the facade of St. Onufriy Church of the Basilian Monastery in Lviv (36/38 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street).

Commemorating Petro Kholodnyi Lane in Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv Oblast. Petro Kholodnyi streets in Lviv and Ochakiv.