63 Notable alumni of
Kyiv National Economic University
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Kyiv National Economic University is 835th in the world, 294th in Europe, and 9th in Ukraine by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 63 notable alumni from Kyiv National Economic University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Potap
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- songwriterpresenterrappertelevision presenterrecord producer
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Oleksiy Andriyovich Potapenko, known professionally as Potap (Потап) is a Ukrainian singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer. He has been involved as a performer and/or producer in Potap I Nastya, Vremya I Steklo, MOZGI, and many more, releasing over 300 songs.
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Isaak Babel
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- film directorjournalistplaywrightediting staffmilitary personnel
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Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel was a Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories, and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose writer of Russian Jewry". Babel was arrested by the NKVD on 15 May 1939 on fabricated charges of terrorism and espionage, and executed on 27 January 1940.
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Oleh Sentsov
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- film producerscreenwriterwriterdirectorfilm screenwriter
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Oleh Hennadiiovych Sentsov is a Ukrainian filmmaker, writer, activist and soldier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Crimea. Sentsov has directed the feature films Gamer (2011), Numbers (2019, co-directed with Akhtem Seitablayev), and Rhino (2021).
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Oleksandr Dovzhenko
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- film producerfilm directorfilm editordiplomatdirector
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Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko, also Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory.
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Victoria Spartz
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- politician
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Victoria Spartz is a Ukrainian-born American politician and businesswoman who is the U.S. representative for Indiana's 5th congressional district. Spartz is a member of the Republican Party, but declined receiving any Republican committee assignments. She previously represented the 20th district in the Indiana Senate.
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Pavlo Tychyna
- Enrolled in Kyiv National Economic University
- Studied in 1913-1917
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- opinion journalistliterary scholarpoetpoliticiantranslator
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Pavlo Hryhorovych Tychyna was a major Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public activist, academician, and statesman. He composed the lyrics of the Anthem of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Ivan Bakanov
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- film producerjuristbusinesspersonHead of the Security Service of Ukraineadvocate
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Ivan Hennadiyovych Bakanov, is a Ukrainian politician who, from 2019 to 2022, served as head of the Security Service of Ukraine. Bakanov was a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine from 2019 to 2022. Previously, he was the leader of the Servant of the People party from 2017 to 2019. Bakanov is a close childhood friend of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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Oleksandr Skichko
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- television presenterimpressionistcomedianpublic figurepresenter
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Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Skichko is a Ukrainian politician, comedian, actor, and television presenter. From 29 January 2021 to 2 March 2022 Skichko was Governor of Cherkasy Oblast.
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Ihor Surkis
- Enrolled in Kyiv National Economic University
- Studied in 1981
- Occupations
- businesspersonassociation football executive
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Ihor Mykhailovych Surkis is a Ukrainian oligarch best known for being an owner and President of Dynamo Kyiv since 2002. His brother, Hryhoriy Surkis, was the head of the Football Federation of Ukraine from August 2000 to September 2012.
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Kateryna Handziuk
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- human rights defenderactivistpolitician
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Kateryna Viktorivna Handziuk was a Ukrainian civil rights and anti-corruption activist campaigner and political advisor, who exposed corruption in her hometown of Kherson. She was attacked with sulphuric acid on 31 July 2018, and died from her injuries on 4 November 2018.
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Serhiy Lyovochkin
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- politicianeconomist
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Serhiy Volodymyrovych Lyovochkin is a Ukrainian politician, formerly a member of the Parliament of Ukraine. Over 20 years, he has held various leading posts in civil service as well as top corporate positions.
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Yurii Yekhanurov
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- university teachereconomistpolitician
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Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov is a Ukrainian politician who was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2005 to 2006 and Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2009.
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Kostyantin Zhevago
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- economistbankerentrepreneurpolitician
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Kostyantyn Valentynovych Zhevago is a Ukrainian businessman, philanthropist, and politician. He served as a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) continuously for 21 years from 1998 until 2019. Additionally, he served as the Executive Director of Ferrexpo from 2008 to 2019.
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Nataliya Vitrenko
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- politicianeconomist
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Nataliya Mykhailivna Vitrenko is a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician and scientist, who served as the Member of the Verkhovna Rada from 1995 to 2002.
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Roman Nasirov
- Enrolled in Kyiv National Economic University
- Studied in 2001
- Occupations
- politician
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Roman Mykhailovych Nasirov is a Ukrainian politician who served as the Head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. He was temporarily relieved of his duties on 3 March 2017 and although he was reinstated in his function by a court decision late 2018 he did not return as head of the State Fiscal Service.
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Valeriia Hontareva
- Enrolled in Kyiv National Economic University
- Studied in 1997
- Occupations
- central bank governoreconomistbankerpolitician
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Valeriia Oleksiivna Gontareva, also spelled as Valeria Hontareva and Valeria Gontareva, is a prominent Ukrainian investment banker and millionaire. She served as Governor or Chairwoman of the National Bank of Ukraine from 19th of June 2014 until she submitted her resignation and left the bank on 11 May 2017. In 2016, Focus magazine named Valeria the most influential woman in Ukraine. In 2019, Financial Times included Valeriia Gontareva in the list of most influential women in the world.
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Maksym Stepanov
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- politician
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Maksym Volodymyrovych Stepanov is a Ukrainian politician. From 30 March 2020 until 18 May 2021, he was the Minister of Healthcare. Stepanov served as Governor of the Odesa Oblast from January 2017 until April 2019. In 2023, he was issued an arrest warrant in absentia for embezzlement and money laundering.
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Olexander Omelchenko
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- politician
- Biography
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Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Omelchenko was a Ukrainian politician who served as Mayor of Kyiv from 1999 to 2006. Omelchenko was also a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2007 to 2012.
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Yurii Vitrenko
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- economist
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Yuriy Yuriyovych Vitrenko is a Ukrainian businessman.
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Vadym Hetman
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- bank managereconomistbankerpolitician
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Vadym Petrovych Hetman was a Ukrainian statesman, politician, and banker. He is credited with the creation of the National Bank of Ukraine, Ukraine's central bank. He was assassinated in April 1998 in his home in Kyiv. According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the crime was paid for by former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko. He was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine on 11 July 2005.
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Oleksandr Kubrakov
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Oleksandr Mykolayovych Kubrakov is a Ukrainian economist, civil servant and politician. From May 2021 to June 2024, he served as Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine.
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Viktoriia Tihipko
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- entrepreneurventure business
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Viktoriya Viktorivna Tigipko is a Ukrainian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor. She is the founder and managing partner of TA Ventures, the founder of the international angel investment syndicate ICLUB, co-founder of the women-in-tech community Wtech, founder of the startup conference IDCEE (Investor Day Central and Eastern Europe), founder of the Odesa International Film Festival, co-founder and Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Film Academy, and Chairwoman of the Advisory Board of the Ukrainian Startup Fund from its inception in 2019 until the end of 2025.
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Igor Mazepa
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Igor Aleksandrovich Mazepa is the director general of the Concorde Capital investment company in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Taras Kutovyi
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- politicianeconomist
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Taras Viktorovych Kutovy was a Ukrainian economist and politician who served as Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food from 2016 to 2018. He previously served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2012 to 2014, representing Ukraine's 151st electoral district in northern Poltava Oblast.
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Roksolana Pidlasa
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- politicianeconomist
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Roksolana Andriivna Pidlasa is a Ukrainian politician and economist, and the chairman of the budget committee of the Verkhovna Rada.
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Yuriy Derevyanko
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- politician
- Biography
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Yuriy Bohdanovych Derevyanko is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIIth and VIIIth convocations. Derevyanko was a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction. He is a member of the Council of Volia party.
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Volodymyr Borodians'ky
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- media proprietorpolitician
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Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Borodianskyi is a Ukrainian television manager, public figure, entrepreneur, and politician. He has served as Ukraine's Minister of Culture, Youth, and Sports (2019–2020), chairman of the board of STB (2004–2018), Director of StarLightMedia (2012–2018), and as Chairman of the Council for the Development of the National Cultural, Art, and Museum complex "Mystetsky Arsenal".
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Ihor Umansky
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- politicianeconomist
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Ihor Ivanovych Umansky is a Ukrainian economist and civil servant. On 4 March 2020, he was appointed as the Minister of Finance of Ukraine. He was dismissed on 30 March 2020. Umansky claims he never received a formal reason for his dismissal and that he first heard of it through news reports.
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Rustam Temirgaliev
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- military personneleconomistpolitician
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Rustam Ilmirovich Temirgaliev is the Director General Russia-China Investment Fund for Regional Development since August 8, 2018. He previously held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
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Anton Yatsenko
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- politician
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Anton Volodymyrovych Yatsenko is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 200th electoral district as an independent since 2012, having previously been a member of the Party of Regions. Previously, he served as a party list People's Deputy from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc from 2007 to 2012.
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Oleksandr Danylyuk
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- public figurelawyerpolitician
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Oleksandr Volodymyrovych Danylyuk is a Ukrainian public figure, lawyer, human rights activist. Coordinator of the public movement (now party) "Spilna Sprava" (Common Cause). Chief Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Valeriy Heletey on a voluntary basis from July 15 to November 5, 2014.
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Serhii Babak
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- economistjuristpolitician
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Serhii Vitaliiovych Babak is a Ukrainian politician, lawyer, economist, psychologist, is a who is currently a member of the Verkhovna Rada since 29 April 2019 from the Servant of the People party.
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Volodymyr Lanovyi
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Volodymyr Tymofiiovych Lanovyi is a Ukrainian statesman, politician, economical scientist.
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Yehor Cherniev
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- entrepreneurpolitician
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Yehor Volodymyrovych Cherniev is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Servant of the People party in the Verkhovna Rada, number 26 on the party's list. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on National Security, Defence and Intelligence of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and the Chairman of the Permanent Delegation of Ukraine at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
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Yuliya Sokolovska
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- 1985-.. (age 41)
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- civil servantcommunity leaderpolitician
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Yuliya Serhiyivna Sokolovska is a Ukrainian activist, civil servant and politician who is since 12 March 2020 Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine responsible for social affairs.
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Oleksiy Lyubchenko
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- politicianeconomist
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Oleksiy Mykolayovych Liubchenko is a Ukrainian politician who served as First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine from 20 May 2021 to 3 November 2021 and Minister of Economy.
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Vladimir Matvienko
- Enrolled in Kyiv National Economic University
- Studied in 1967
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticianentrepreneurpatron of the artseconomist
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Volodymyr Pavlovych Matvienko is a Ukrainian poet-songwriter, economist and politician who is a recipient of both the Hero of Ukraine and Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise. Additionally, he was the first chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) from 1991 to 1992.
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Mariya Ionova
- Enrolled in Kyiv National Economic University
- Studied in 2000
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mariya Mykolayevna Ionova is a Ukrainian politician of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
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Mykola Bagrayev
- Enrolled in Kyiv National Economic University
- Studied in 2005
- Occupations
- entrepreneursocial activist
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Mykola Georgiyovich Bagrayev is a Ukrainian businessman in the fields of media and show business and a social activist. He is best known as the founder of the Tavria Games, an international music festival, and the Chernomorki Games, a national charitable festival for children. He established the radio broadcasting group TAVR Media, and also played a key role in the creation of the Ukrainian music television channels M1 and M2. Bagrayev is a co-founder of TicketsBox, a ticket distribution platform, and has ownership interests in the advertising company RTM-Ukraine and the technical production firm Profi Group. Between 2000 and 2002, he served on the National Council of Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine. During this time, the Council created the Teletriumph Awards, Ukraine's only national television awards, of which Bagarev is a co-founder. He was elected as a member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) for four consecutive terms, from 2002 to 2014, and was active on the Committee on Freedom of Speech and Information Policy.
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Maksym Tymoshenko
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- cultural studies scholarart criticchoir directoruniversity teacher
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Maksym Tymoshenko is a Ukrainian culturologist and a social activist. He is a doctor of philosophy (2013), a professor of the National Academy of Culture and Arts Management (2014), an Honored Art Worker of Ukraine (2015), member of the Green Cross International Board (since October 2017). President of the Ukrainian National Academy of Music as of November 2018.
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Serhiy Ostapenko
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- university teachereconomistpolitician
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Serhiy Stepanovych Ostapenko was a Ukrainian economist, statesman, and political activist. In early 1919 he served as Chairman of the Council of People's Ministers of Ukrainian People's Republic, a position equivalent to the present-day office of Prime Minister of Ukraine.
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Nikolay Lagun
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- businesspersonbanker
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Mykola Lahun — is the Ukrainian businessman. He was the majority shareholder and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of JSC Delta Bank, which declared insolvent on 2 March 2015.
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Fedir Shpyh
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- politicianbanker
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Fedir Ivanovych Shpyh was a Ukrainian banker, football functionary, and politician.
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Andry Gordieiev
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- politician
- Biography
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Andriy Anatoliyovych Gordeev is a Ukrainian politician, people's deputy of Ukraine of the VIIIth convocation, who was the Head of Kherson Oblast State Administration from April 2016 until April 2019.
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Anastasiia Radina
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- public figurepolitician
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Anastasiya Olehivna Radina is a Ukrainian politician and member of the 9th Verkhovna Rada since 29 August 2019. She is grouped with the Servant of the People parliamentary faction, but is not a member of this political party.
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Borys Prykhodko
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- politician
- Biography
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Borys Viktorovych Prykhodko is a Ukrainian banker and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 210th electoral district as an independent member of Dovira since 2019. He previously served as first deputy chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2012 to 2014.
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Oleh Seminskyi
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- entrepreneurpolitician
- Biography
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Oleh Valeriiovych Seminskyi is a Ukrainian businessman, kidnapping victim, and politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 205th electoral district since 2019. Prior to his election, he was director of Naftogazvybudovannia from 2003 to 2011. Seminskyi was kidnapped by members of the Ukrainian mafia in 2012 and subject to torture until being released in 2015, as part of what he claims was a forced takeover of his company by Rinat Akhmetov.
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Valeriy Voshchevsky
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Valeriy Mykolayovych Voshchevsky is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician who served as Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine from December 2014 until September 2015.
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Andrii Motovylovets
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- politician
- Biography
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Andriy Viktorovych Motovilovets is a Ukrainian politician, national deputy (IX convocation) of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Vice chief head of Sluha Narodu party fraction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine since 1 November 2021.
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Leopold Taburyansky
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- politician
- Biography
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Leopold Ivanovych Taburyanskyi is a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast from 1990 to 1994. He was a candidate in the 1991 Ukrainian presidential election, where he gathered 0.57% of the vote.
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Oleh Bilorus
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- diplomateconomistpolitician
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Oleh Hryhoryovych Bilorus is a Ukrainian politician, Dr.sc.oec, professor, member-corr. of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) (since May 1990, Department of Economics, International Management)
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Anatolii Brezvin
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- bankereconomist
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Anatolii Ivanovych Brezvin is a Ukrainian former businessman, politician, and ice hockey executive. He earned an industrial accounting degree from Kyiv Institute of National Economy, a degree in international law and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics from Ukrainian Academy of Foreign Trade. He worked as a senior economist for the Kyiv City State Administration, and was head of the financial department for the Podilskyi District and Minskyi District councils. He later worked various positions in the State Tax Administration of Ukraine, and was chairman of the Ukrgasbank board of directors. In politics, he served on the Minskyi District Council, and on the Kyiv City Council as a member of the People's Party of Ukraine. Honors received include the Order of Merit first class, the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise V degree, and being named an Honored Economist of Ukraine.
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Vitaliy Voitsekhivskyi
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- politician
- Biography
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Vitaliy Oleksandrovych Voitsekhirskyi is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as a People's Deputy of Ukraine representing Ukraine's 197th electoral district from Servant of the People since 2021. He previously served as mayor of Zolotonosha from 2010 to 2021.
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Stanislav Arzhevitin
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- bankereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Stanislav Mikhaylovich Arzhevitin is a Ukrainian businessman, Chairman of the Association of Ukrainian Banks, and People's Deputy of Verkhovna Rada.
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Volodymyr Yatsenko
- Years
- 1977-.. (age 49)
- Occupations
- film actorfilm producer
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Volodymyr Viktorovych Yatsenko is a Ukrainian film producer.
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S. S. Koteliansky
- Occupations
- translator
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Samuel Solomonovich Koteliansky was a Ukrainian translator of Russian literature into English. He made the transition from his origins in a small Jewish shtetl to distinction in the rarefied world of English letters. Although he was not a creative writer himself, he befriended, corresponded with, helped publish, and otherwise served as intermediary between some of the most prominent people in English literary life in the early twentieth century.
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Taras Tarasenko
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Taras Petrovych Tarasenko is a Ukrainian lawyer and arbitration manager. People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation. He is a member of inter-factional union "People" in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
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Vasyl Shevchuk
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- draughts playereconomist
- Biography
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Vasyl Yakovych Shevchuk was Ukraine's environment minister in 1998-2000 and 2002-2003 and a deputy minister of economy for sustainable development in 1993-1998. Under his leadership, Kyiv hosted the UN “Environment for Europe” Fifth Ministerial Conference in 2003. Shevchuk also held scientific and advisory positions at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and at the Parliament of Ukraine (at the Speaker's Secretariat and the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine).
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Pavlo Frolov
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pavlo Valeriyovych Frolov is a Ukrainian politician. Member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the 9th convocation from the Servant of the People party.
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Magomedov Ruslan Sadrudinovich
- Years
- 1984-.. (age 42)
- Occupations
- statespersoneconomist
- Biography
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Ruslan Sadrudynovych Mahomedov is the Chairman of the National Commission on Securities and Stock Market since 23 February 2021.
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Huda Al-Ban
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Huda al-Ban is a Yemeni politician. She was Yemen's Minister of Human Rights until 20 March 2011, when she resigned in protest to the government's sniper attacks on protesters during the 2011 Yemen protests.
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Tetiana Popova
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tetiana Valerievna Popova is a Ukrainian politician. She was Deputy Minister of Information Policy of Ukraine from 4 February 2015 to August 2016, having previously served as adviser to the Ukrainian Minister of Defense from December 2014 to October 2015.
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Denys Viktorovych Chernyshov
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Denys Viktorovych Chernyshov is a Ukrainian politician and economist. He has been a Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine from October 2016 to September 2019. He holds a PhD in Law.
