The article presents the evolution of the position of the President within the state and government system in Ukraine in the period of independence. The paper is based on the analysis of norms of particular legal acts, such as the constitutional amendment and the President Act of 1991, the constitutional agreement of 1995, the constitution of 1996 and the constitutional amendments of 2004 and 2014. The Constitutional Court ruling of 2010 restoring the President’s broad scope of powers was also taken into account. The results of the analysis allowed to answer the question of what constitutional and legal position was granted to the President in the period of emergence of the Ukrainian state and how it changed during individual stages of the country’s independence.