Mykola Mykolaiovych Horyn is a Ukrainian politician who served as chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council from 1992 to 1997 and as Governor of Lviv Oblast from 1994 to 1997.
13 Facts About Mykola Horyn
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Mykola Horyn is a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine, and the younger brother of politicians and Soviet dissidents Bohdan and Mykhailo Horyn.
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Mykola Mykolaiovych Horyn was born on 29 January 1945 in the village of Kniselo to a family of ethnically-Ukrainian peasants.
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Mykola Horyn is the younger brother of Bohdan and Mykhailo Horyn.
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Mykola Horyn studied at Lviv Polytechnic from 1963 to 1968, graduating in electrical engineering.
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Mykola Horyn worked at SKTB Termoprylad from 1968 to 1990, aside from a year between 1969 and 1970, when he completed conscript service in the Soviet Army.
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Mykola Horyn served as deputy chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council from May 1990 to April 1992, serving under Viacheslav Chornovil.
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Mykola Horyn subsequently succeeded Chornovil as chairman, serving until April 1997.
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Mykola Horyn additionally became acting Governor of Lviv Oblast in July 1994.
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Mykola Horyn remained as such until 1995, when his authority to serve as governor was formalised by President Leonid Kuchma.
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Mykola Horyn was a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine, and he partook in the commission that drafted the Constitution of Ukraine.
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Mykola Horyn briefly returned to the Lviv Oblast Council as a deputy in 2006.
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Mykola Horyn has invested a significant sum of money in the development of Staryi Sambir Raion, and he owns a home in the raion.