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Sergey RyzhukUkrainian statesman
Date of Birth: 20.01.1950
Country:  Ukraine |
Content:
- Early Life and Education
- - Graduated from the Zhytomyr Agricultural Institute in 1973
- Career in Agriculture
- - Served in the military
- Political Involvement
- - Assistant to the President of Ukraine (1996-1997)
- - Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine (2002-2004)
- - Elected People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Party of Regions (2006)
- - Removed from office following the change of government (2014)
Early Life and Education
- Born on January 20, 1950, in the village of Chudniv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine
- Graduated from the Zhytomyr Agricultural Institute in 1973
- Earned a Candidate of Sciences degree in 2001 from the Institute of Agriculture of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences
- Obtained a Doctor of Sciences degree in 2004 from the Institute of Agroecology and Biotechnology of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences
Career in Agriculture
- Joined the Ostrivskyi collective farm in the Chudniv district in 1968
- Served in the military
- Returned to the Ostrivskyi collective farm as Chief Economist in 1973
Political Involvement
- Instructed the agricultural department of the Zhytomyr Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1976-1979)
- Second and First Secretary of the Zhytomyr Oblast Komsomol (1979-1983)
- First Secretary of the Yemilchyne Raion Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1983-1986)
- Inspector and First Deputy Head of the Agrarian Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine (1986-1991)
- Deputy Head of the Department of the Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine (1991-1992)
- Executive Director of the State-Cooperative Association "UkrAgroForm" (1992-1996)
- Assistant to the President of Ukraine (1996-1997)
- Deputy Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex of Ukraine (1997-2000)- Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine (2000-2001)
- State Secretary of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine (2001-2002)
- Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine (2002-2004)
- Chairman of the Zhytomyr Oblast State Administration (2004-2005)- Member of the Commission on the Organization of Technology Parks and Innovative Structures (2001-2003)
- Elected People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Party of Regions (2006)
- Re-elected People's Deputy of Ukraine from the Party of Regions (2007)
- Appointed Chairman of the Zhytomyr Oblast State Administration (2010)
- Removed from office following the change of government (2014)
Family- Married to Lyudmila Andreevna (1953)
- Two children: Vladimir (1973) and Olga (1981)
Honors and Awards
- Honored Worker of Agriculture of Ukraine (1999)
- State Serviceman Rank 1 (2002)
- Order of Merit, 2nd Class (2011)
- Order of Merit, 3rd Class
