Viktor Mykolaiovych Ostapchuk ( uk, Віктор Миколайович Остапчу́к, 16 May 1955) is a Ukrainian railway administrator and later Ukrainian parliamentary (
People's Deputy of Ukraine
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of the
7th
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and
8th
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8 is:
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Hero of Ukraine
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.
He is known for his work at the Ukrainian Southern Railways where under his leadership number of rail-lines were electrified.
Origin
He was born on May 16, 1955, in
Magnitogorsk
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,
Chelyabinsk Oblast
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, where his family was evacuated from
Zhytomyr Oblast
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at the beginning of the
war
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.
Education
From 1972 to 1977 studied in
Kharkiv
Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Ukrainian State University of Railway Transport) getting his master's degree in specialty «Railway rolling stock and special railway transport. Locomotives», same year Ostapchuk conferred a Candidate of Technical Science degree in specialty «Car building Technology», another candidate degree he conferred in 2007 in the Department of materials and technologies of transport products issued at the Ukrainian Academy of Railway Transport
In March 2012 he received a degree of Doctor of Technical Science on specialty in Use and Repairing of Transport Means.
In January 2014 he was conferred a degree of
Professor
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of the Department of materials and technologies of transport products producing of Ukrainian Academy of Railway Transport.
Career
Ostapchuk started out in late 1970s at the Kirov locomotive shop located near Osnova railway station in
Kharkiv
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Parliamentarian
From 2012 to 2014 Ostapchuk served as the
people's deputy of Ukraine
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of the 7th convocation. Ostapchuk was one of the 36 members of the
Party of regions
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faction (who consisted of 96 deputies) who voted in favour of the
impeachment
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of President
Viktor Yanukovych
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in February 2014.
On November 27, 2014, he was elected people's deputy of Ukraine of the 8th convocation, elected at district #177 in
Kharkiv Oblast
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by self-nomination.
Ostapchuk was again a candidate of the
Opposition Bloc
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, in election district #177 during the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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, but he finished in second place with 26.97% of the votes, and thus lost his parliamentary seat to Dmytro Lyubota of
Servant of the People
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It was formed in late 2017 and was officially registered on 31 March 2018 on the basis of the previously ...
Central election commission of Ukraine
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State awards and honourable distinctions
* Title of Hero of Ukraine (with Order of State) – 2004;
* Order of Merit, III stage – 2003;
* Order of Yaroslav the Wise, V stage – 2009;
* Order of Friendship – 2010;
* Honorary degree «The Honored Railroad Worker of Ukraine» – 2001;
* Merit certificates of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 2001, 2004;
* National Award of Ukraine in architecture for complex regeneration historic-architectural surrounding and station monuments in Kharkiv and Kharkiv Oblast – 2004;