Mykhailo Mykhailovych Tsymbaliuk ( uk, Михайло Михайлович Цимбалю́к; born 21 November 1964) is a Ukrainian retired lieutenant general of the

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, politician, and legal professor currently serving as a

People's Deputy of Ukraine People's, branded as ''People's Viennaline'' until May 2018, and legally ''Altenrhein Luftfahrt Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung, GmbH'', is an Austrian airline headquartered in Vienna. It operates scheduled and charter passenger flights ma ...

on the party list of

Batkivshchyna The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ( uk, Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина", translit=Vseukrains'ke obiednannia "Bat'kivshchyna") referred to as Batkivshchyna (), is a political party in Ukraine led by Peo ...

since 29 August 2019. Previously, he served as

Governor of Lviv Oblast The Governor of Lviv Oblast is the head of executive branch for the Lviv 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 Ukrai ...

from 21 December 2010 to 2 November 2011 and as

Governor of Ternopil Oblast The Governor of Ternopil Oblast is the head of executive branch for the Ternopil Oblast. The office of Governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the President of Ukraine, on recommendation from the Prime Minister ...

on two occasions, first from 17 July 2004 to 19 January 2005 and later from 16 June to 21 December 2010.

Early life and police career

Mykhailo Mykhailovych Tsymbaliuk was born on 21 November 1964 in the village of , in what was then part of the

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 ...

. In 1988, he graduated from the Ternopil State Pedagogical Institute (now the Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University) with a degree in physical education, and began working at a youth sports school in the village of . Around the same time, Tsymbaliuk began working at the

Main Directorate for Traffic Safety The Main Directorate for Traffic Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (, IBDD or GUOBDD, popularly known under its historical abbreviation GAI (ГАИ), is a federal law enforcement agency of Russia specializing in traffic poli ...

(GAI) within the

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of the Ukrainian SSR. He worked in the GAI, as well as its successor agency, the (DAI), until 2001. From 2002 to 2004, Tsymbaliuk was head of the

Rivne Oblast Rivne Oblast ( uk, Рі́вненська о́бласть, translit=Rivnenska oblast), also referred to as Rivnenshchyna ( uk, Рі́вненщина) is an oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is Rivne. The surface area of th ...

. From 2005 to 2007, he was head of the department of the criminal police for juvenile offenders within the Ministry of Internal Affairs, before serving as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in

Lviv Oblast Lviv Oblast ( uk, Льві́вська о́бласть, translit=Lvivska oblast, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna ( uk, Льві́вщина, ), ). The name of each oblast is a wikt:Appendix:Glossary#relational, relational adjective—in Englis ...

from 2007 to 2010 and in

Poltava Oblast Poltava Oblast ( uk, Полта́вська о́бласть, translit=Poltavska oblast; also referred to as Poltavshchyna – uk, Полта́вщина, literally 'Poltava Country') is an oblast (province) of central Ukraine. The administrative ...

in 2010.

Legal career

Tsymbaliuk graduated from the

Interregional Academy of Personnel Management Interregional Academy of Personnel Management ( uk, Міжрегіональна Академія управління персоналом (МАУП), translit.: ''Mizhrehional'na Akademiya upravlinnya personalom'', English acronym: MAUP) is a pr ...

in 1998 and from the National Academy of Internal Affairs in 2001, on both occasions with a degree in law. An Honoured Lawyer of Ukraine, Tsymbaliuk has published multiple scientific works and monographs, and is a professor of the Department of Legal Philosophy at the National Academy of Internal Affairs.

Political career

On 17 July 2004, Tsymbaliuk was appointed by

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Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corrup ...

. He served in the position until 19 January 2005, at which point he resigned. He was again appointed as Governor of Ternopil Oblast by President

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...

on 16 June 2010, and served until 21 December 2010, when he was appointed as

. On 2 November 2011, he resigned from this position.

People's Deputy of Ukraine

In the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...

, Tsymbaliuk was successfully elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine, placed 15th on Batkivshchyna's party list. He is first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy and Protection of Veterans' Rights.

References

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