Sydir Holubovych (Ukrainian: Сидір Голубович; 6 March 1873 - 12 January 1938) was a Ukrainian politician and lawyer who most notably served Head of the Council of State Secretaries of West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR) under Yevhen Petrushevych, which was equivalent to the post of Prime Minister, from 4 January to 9 June 1919. During the ZUNR, he also was State Secretary of Justice and State Secretary of Finance, Trade, and Industry, both of which were equivalent to ministry positions. Prior to the establishment of ZUNR, he served as a deputy both to the Imperial Council and Galician Diet.
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Early life
Holubovych was born on 6 March 1873 in Tovstenke, which was then part of the Chortkiv Bezirk within the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary. In 1897, he completed his core studies of law at Lviv University. During these years, he first became politically active, joining the student society "Akademichna Hromada", which he eventually headed, and publishing for a series entitled Svitova Biblioteka. He then returned to his alma mater, and achieved his Doctor of Law from the university in 1902.
Upon graduating, he worked as a lawyer. He first worked within Ternopil, before in 1905 opened his own law office in Ternopil. He was part of the defense council for Myroslav Sichynsky, who in 1908 assassinated the Governor of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki, in retaliation for the killing of Ukrainian peasants in Galicia. He also, in 1911, represented Ukrainian students who protested against the authorities refusal to establish a Ukrainian university. Simultaneously, he also participated in local societies. From 1904 to 1914 he headed the Ternopil branch of Prosvita in conjunction with leading the county-level Sokol society, and also the association Podilska Rada and the Ukrainian newspaper Podilskyi Holos.