1. Vadym Petrovych Hetman was a Ukrainian statesman, politician, and banker.
15 Facts About Vadym Hetman
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Vadym Hetman is credited with the creation of the National Bank of Ukraine, Ukraine's central bank.
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Vadym Hetman was assassinated in April 1998 in his home in Kyiv.
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Vadym Hetman was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine on 11 July 2005.
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Vadym Petrovych Hetman was born in the village of Snityn, located in Poltava Oblast, in 1935.
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In 1975, Vadym Hetman was named the first vice-president to the Head of the Government Committee of Pricing of the Ukrainian SSR.
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On 24 March 1992, Vadym Hetman was accepted as the Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.
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Vadym Hetman supervised early monetary reforms in newly independent Ukraine through 1993, when he resigned from his position as the head of the supervisory board of the National Bank of Ukraine.
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Vadym Hetman was a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 1990 to 1998.
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Vadym Hetman went for his second term as deputy in 1994 from the Talne electoral district of Cherkasy Oblast as a nonpartisan.
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Vadym Hetman's opponent was First Deputy Minister of Information Mykhailo Onofryichuk.
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Vadym Hetman is known to have complained to the then-President Leonid Kuchma about voting irregularities within the Verkhovna Rada itself.
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Vadym Hetman was shot by an apparently professional killer in the elevator of his own apartment block in Kyiv on 22 April 1998.
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Vadym Hetman was later sentenced to life imprisonment without bond in April 2003.
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Vadym Hetman was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine by President Viktor Yushchenko on 11 July 2005.