Oleksandr Vasylyovych Starukh ( ua, Олександр Васильович Старух; born 28 April 1973) is a
Ukrainian
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historian and politician. On 18 December 2020 he was appointed as
Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
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.Zelensky appoints new head of Zaporizhzhia region
Ukrinform
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(18 December 2020) He had previously been Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast from 2008 to 2010.
Biography
Starukh studied history at Zaporizhzhia National University (1995). Candidate of Historical Sciences (1998), Associate Professor (2003).
In the
1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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Starukh failed to get elected to the
Ukrainian parliament
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for
People's Movement of Ukraine
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.
In 2007 and 2008 Starukh worked in the
Secretariat of the President of Ukraine
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regional development
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department.
On 25 September 2008,
President
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Viktor Yushchenko
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As an informal leader of th ...
appointed Starukh
Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
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The office of Governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the President of Ukraine, on recommendation from the Prim ...
. He was dismissed from this post by Yanukovych on 18 March 2010.
Starukh failed again to go into national politics when in the
2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election
The Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2012 took place on 28 October 2012.Batkivshchyna
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he lost in electoral district 75, located in Zaporizhzhia, to of
Party of Regions
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. (Kaltsev gained 38.40% of the votes, Starukh finished second with 15.73%.)
In the
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.2015 Ukrainian local elections Starukh was elected a member of the
Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council
The Zaporizhzhia Oblast Council ( uk, Запорізька обласна рада) is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast (province) located in eastern Ukraine.
Council members are elected for five year terms. In ...
for Batkivshchyna.Small biography on Oleksandr Vasylyovych Starukh
Civil movement "Chesno"
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On 18 December 2020 Starukh was (again) appointed as
Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast
The Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast is the head of state administration for the Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
The office of Governor is an appointed position, with officeholders being appointed by the President of Ukraine, on recommendation from the Prim ...
by President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...
.
Starukh is a member of the All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland".