The Third Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council (Ukrainian: Третій Універсал Української Центральної Ради, romanized: Tretii Universal Ukrainskoi Tsentralnoi Rady) is a state-political act, universal of the Central Council of Ukraine, proclaiming the formation of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

[1] The idea of proclaiming the Ukrainian People's Republic was first put forward by Mykhailo Hrushevskyi in his introductory speech on the opening day of the Congress of the Enslaved Peoples of Russia.

Ukraine has already seceded from the Russian Republic, maintaining only a formal federal connection with it, and the task was only to legalize this fact.

On November 7, M. Hrushevsky opened a solemn meeting of the Ukrainian Central Council and after the introductory speech Mykola Kovalskyi read the text of the Universal: After the text was announced, after a short break, at the suggestion of the Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Faction, Universal III was put to a roll-call vote in the Central Rada.

[2][3] In 2017, at the state level in Ukraine, the anniversary was celebrated – 100 years since the proclamation of the Ukrainian People's Republic by III Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council.