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Volodymyr Hunchyk
Volodymyr Petrovych Hunchyk (Ukrainian: Володимир Петрович Гунчик; born on 9 March 1958), is a Ukrainian politician and engineer, who was the Governor of Volyn Oblast from July 24, 2014 to March 22, 2018. Biography Volodymyr Hunchyk was born in Kamin-Kashyrskyi, on 9 March 1958. In 1978, he began his labor activity by the electrical installer-circuit designer and the category of the collective workshop of the Zaporizhzhya Industrial Association "Convertor". From 1979 to 1983, he was an engineer of department of transformation of the Institute of Electrodynamics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. From 1987 to 1989, he was an instructor of the organisational department of the Lutsk City Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. He was also the instructor of the industrial and transport department of the Volyn Oblast Council of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In the 2014 presidential election, he was appointed Governor of Volyn Oblast by the inaugu ...
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Governor Of Volyn Oblast
The Governor of Volyn Oblast is the Chief of Local State Administration (Ukraine), head of executive branch for the Volyn Oblast. The office of Governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the President of Ukraine, on recommendation from the Prime Minister of Ukraine, to serve a four-year term. The official residence for the Governor is located in Lutsk. Since 2 December 2019 the Governor is Yuriy Pohulyaiko.(11 June 2019Про тимчасове виконання обов’язків голови Волинської обласної державної адміністрації/ref> Governors * Volodymyr Blazhenchuk (1992–1994, as the Presidential representative) * Yuriy Lenartovych (1994, acting until 1994 as the Presidential representative) * Borys Klimchuk (1995–2002, as the Governor) * Anatoliy Frantsuz (2002–2005) * Volodymyr Bondar (2005–2007) * Mykola Romanyuk (2007–2010, acting to 2007) * Borys Klimchuk (2010–2014) * Oleksandr ...
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Hryhoriy Pustovit
Hryhoriy ( uk, Григо́рій, Hryhórij ), sometimes Hryhory, may refer to: *Hryhory Alchevsky (1866–1920), prominent Ukrainian and minor Russian composer *Hryhoriy Baranets (born 1986), professional Ukrainian football midfielder *Hryhory Bazhul (1906–1989), Ukrainian bandurist *Hryhoriy Chernysh, candidate in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election *Hryhoriy Chorny (died 1630), a Hetman of the Dnieper Cossacks from 1628 to 1630 *Hryhoriy Hamarnik or Grigory Gamarnik (born 1929), former Soviet world champion wrestler *Hryhoriy Hrynko (1890–1938), Soviet Ukrainian statesman who held high office in the government of the Soviet Union *Hryhoriy Hulyanytsky (died 1679), Ukrainian Cossack colonel, a skilled warrior and a shrewd politician *Hryhoriy Illyashov (born 1965), former KGB operative, Ukrainian spy, and politician *Hryhoriy Khomyshyn, Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop and martyr *Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko (1778–1843), Ukrainian writer, journalist, and playwright *Hr ...
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Oleksandr Savchenko
Oleksandr Illich Savchenko ( uk, Олександр Ілліч Савченко; born on 5 August 1957), is a Ukrainian politician who was the Governor of Volyn Oblast from 23 March 2018 until 11 June 2019.(11 June 2019Про тимчасове виконання обов’язків голови Волинської обласної державної адміністрації/ref> Biography Oleksandr Savchenko was born in a village of Nyzhchi Vereshchaky on 5 August 1957. In 1979, he graduated from the Kirovograd Institute of Agricultural Engineering (faculty "Construction and Road Machinery and Equipment"), and have obtained the qualification of a mechanical engineer. The same year, he worked as a mechanical engineer of the Krasnodar Krasnoyarsk Production Association "Reinforced Concrete". From 1979 to 1981, he served in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR. From 1981 to 1984, he worked as an engineer of the automobile department of the Gozo Department of Internal Af ...
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Kamin-Kashyrskyi
Kamin-Kashyrskyi ( uk, Камінь-Каширський, pl, Kamień Koszyrski) is a town in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kamin-Kashyrskyi Raion. Population: Name "Kamień" means ''stone'' in Polish, "Kamin" ''fireplace'' in German, the suffix "-ski" means ''of'' or ''from'', "Koszyr"' is an ancient prominent Polish family name, or "Kashyr" aka "Kasher" means ''kosher'' or ''49'' in Hebrew. According to ''Ancient Poland'' Michael Balinski (Warsaw 1845), a Prince Koshyrski was known for his religious orthodoxy and generosity to houses of prayer and was responsible for erecting a Dominican monastery in Kamin. Therefore, the name origin is most likely ''Koszyr's fireplace'', but could also mean ''Kosher Fireplace'' or ''49 Stones''. People/Ethnicity The area has been historically a mix of Polish, Russian and Ukrainian peoples for more than a millennium. The region has been subject to a great many wars, pogroms, rulers and empires for centuries, inclu ...
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Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invasion, it was the eighth-most populous country in Europe, with a population of around 41 million people. It is also bordered by Belarus to the north; by Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and by Romania and Moldova to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city. Ukraine's state language is Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken, especially in the east and south. During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional po ...
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk ( Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over and spanning eleven time zones. The country's roots lay in the October Revolution of 1917, when the Bolsheviks, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Russian Provisional Government ...
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Lutsk
Lutsk ( uk, Луцьк, translit=Lutsk}, ; pl, Łuck ; yi, לוצק, Lutzk) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast (province) and the administrative center of the surrounding Lutsk Raion (district) within the oblast. Lutsk has a population of It is a historical, political, cultural and religious center of Volyn. Etymology Lutsk is an ancient Slavic town, mentioned in the Hypatian Chronicle as Luchesk in the records of 1085. The etymology of the name is unclear. There are three hypotheses: the name may have been derived from the Old Slavic word ''luka'' (an arc or bend in a river), or the name may have originated from ''Luka'' (the chieftain of the ''Dulebs''), an ancient Slavic tribe living in this area. The name may also have been created after ''Luchanii'' (Luchans), an ancient branch of the tribe mentioned above. Its historical name in Ukrainian is "Луцьк". History According to the legend, Luchesk dat ...
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Communist Party Of Ukraine
The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (according to the party's statute). The party has been a member of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union since its establishment in 1993 as an umbrella organisation for all communist parties of the dissolved Soviet Union. Communist parties have a long history in Ukraine. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the party's predecessor Communist Party of Ukraine was banned in 1991, reforming into Socialist Party of Ukraine and other smaller parties. After being revived in 1993, the Communist Party was represented in the Ukrainian parliament from 1994 until the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election which resulted in national representation for Communists in Ukraine ending for the first time since 1918.
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Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2010, and as the Minister of Trade and Economic Development in 2012. From 2007 until 2012, he headed the Council of Ukraine's National Bank. He was elected president on 25 May 2014, receiving 54.7% of the votes cast in the first round, thus winning outright and avoiding a run-off. During his presidency, Poroshenko led the country through the first phase of the War in Donbas, pushing the Russian separatist forces into the Donbas Region. He began the process of integration with the European Union by signing the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement. Poroshenko's domestic policy promoted the Ukrainian language, nationalism, inclusive capitalism, decommunization, and administra ...
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1958 Births
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the "Lacy-Zarubin Agreement, Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United F.C., Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed i ...
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Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Alumni
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyiv is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center in Eastern Europe. It is home to many high-tech industries, higher education institutions, and historical landmarks. The city has an extensive system of public transport and infrastructure, including the Kyiv Metro. The city's name is said to derive from the name of Kyi, one of its four legendary founders. During its history, Kyiv, one of the oldest cities in Eastern Europe, passed through several stages of prominence and obscurity. The city probably existed as a commercial center as early as the 5th century. A Slavic settlement on the great trade route between Scandinavia and Constantinople, Kyiv was a tributary of the Khazars, until its capture by the Varangian ...
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