Abstract
The article covers the managerial activities of Oleksandr Lipkin as Lityn district starosta in June-November 1918 as a leader of the Hetmanate's policy against the background of events in the Podillia region. The authors argue that this activity demonstrates the failure of attempts to restore pre-revolutionary political and socio-economic relations. The attempt to build an independent Hetmanate using the methods of the tsarist monarchy proved to be completely unconstructive and was rejected by the Ukrainian population.