Alina Volodymyrivna Shpak (born 24 December 1980,
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 Luts ...
) is a Ukrainian archivist. From 2019 to 2020 she was acting director of the
Ukrainian Institute of National Memory
The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory ( uk, Український Інститут Національної Пам’яті, UINM), also translated as the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, is the central executive body operating un ...
. She is a leader in
Decommunization in Ukraine
Decommunization in Ukraine started during and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. With the success of the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, the Ukrainian government approved Ukrainian decommunization laws, laws that outlawed commun ...
.
Life and work
Shpak graduated with a master's degree from the philological faculty of
Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, majoring in English language and literature.
In 2002, she cofounded with Igor Guz and Igor Kulik, the Volyn regional organization "
Youth Nationalist Congress."
In 2006–2008 she worked in the Lutsk City Council, was the head of the Department of International Cooperation.
In 2008–2010, she worked as a consultant, to the
Security Service of Ukraine
The Security Service of Ukraine ( uk, Служба безпеки України, translit=Sluzhba bezpeky Ukrainy}) or SBU ( uk, СБУ, link=no) is the law enforcement authority and main intelligence and security agency of the Ukrainian ...
. At the invitation of
Volodymyr Viatrovych, she was deputy director of the Department of Archival Support. She is First Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language.
From 18 September 2019 to 11 December 2019, after the dismissal of Viatrovich, she performed the duties of the head of the Ukrainian National Labor Organization. On 19 February 2020, she was dismissed from the post of first deputy head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance.
On 31 August 2020, she was appointed the first deputy head of the Secretariat of the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language.
Personal life
Her parents are Volodymyr Markovych Shpak, born in 1952 and a resident of Lutsk and psychology teacher at VSU, and Alla Dmytrivna Shpak, born in 1959, from Lutsk.
Her brother is Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Shpak, born in 1986 in Lutsk. He was the chairman of the local council of the Lutsk township of the Ukrainian national scout organization "Plast" in 2005-2007. In 2007-2010, he held the position of chairman of the Kraiova Plastova Eldership, and in 2010-2012 he headed the Kyiv office of UCU. He moved to the United States in 2012.
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Біографія
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Living people
Ukrainian archivists
Ukrainian women activists
Lesya Ukrainka East European National University alumni
People from Lutsk
1980 births