Ihor Yukhnovskyi

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Rafailovych and the family name is Yukhnovskyi.

Ihor Yukhnovskyi
Ігор Юхновський
Yukhnovskyi in 2009
First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
October 1992 – March 1993
Prime MinisterLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byValentyn Symonenko
Succeeded byYukhym Zvyahilsky
Personal details
Born(1925-09-01)1 September 1925
Kniahynyne,
Lviv University
OccupationPhysicist, politician, writer

Ihor Rafailovych Yukhnovskyi (

Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine
.

Life before politics

Yukhnovskyi was born on 1 September 1925, in Kniahynyne village, Dubno powiat,

Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[2]

Political life

On 30 March 1990, Yukhnovskyi was elected with 59.07% votes (out of 6 candidates) as a member of

Ukrainian SSR from an election district in the city of Lviv. On 15 May 1990, he became the leader of the first ever opposition party in the Ukrainian SSR parliament
named "Narodna Rada" (People’s Council).

During the 24 August 1991 parliamentary debate preceding the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine Yukhnovskyi was the MP who first called on parliament to immediately declare Ukraine an independent democratic state.[3]

In the first presidential elections in Ukraine Yukhnovskyi was supported by 554,719 voters (1.74%) and took 5th place out of 6 candidates. In 1992 he was appointed the first vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.

In the 1994 parliamentary elections Yukhnovskyi was elected to the parliament in the same electoral district as in 1990, the city of Lviv, with 60.41% of support. In the 1998 parliamentary elections he was elected as #15 in the People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) party list. In the 2002 parliamentary elections he was again elected as #68 now in the Our Ukraine party list.[1]

Yukhnovsky was an author of over 400 scientific papers, five books and a textbook "Osnovy kvantovoyi mekhaniky" (Fundamentals of

Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine
.

Ihor Yukhnovskyi was the head of All-Ukrainian Union of World War II veterans. He supported the reconciliation of veterans of the Soviet Army and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

In 2006, the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko appointed Ihor Yukhnovskyi director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory.[2]

Yukhnovskyi died on 26 March 2024, at the age of 98.[4]

Distinctions

References

  1. ^ a b "Member of Parliament: Ihor Yukhnovskyi". Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 21 August 2006. Retrieved 15 February 2011.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b "PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO APPOINTS YUKHNOVSKYI DIRECTOR OF UKRAINE'S INSTITUTE OF NATIONAL REMEMBRANCE". US-Ukraine Business Council, republishing from the Ukrainian News Agency. 22 May 2006. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  3. ^ A reform that ruined the Soviet Union, The Ukrainian Week (10 November 2018)
  4. ^ "Помер фізик-теоретик і Герой України Ігор Юхновський". Suspilne Media. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 26 March 2024.

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