16 Facts About Yukhym Zvyahilsky

Yukhym Leonidovych Zvyahilsky was a Ukrainian politician.

Yukhym Zvyahilsky is the only member of Verkhovna Rada who was elected to parliament in eight elections.

In 1993 and 1994, Zvyahilsky served as the First Vice Prime Minister and acting Prime Minister.

Yukhym Zvyahilsky was born the son of a Jewish civil servant in Stalino on 20 February 1933.

Later Yukhym Zvyahilsky defended his doctorate on the subject "Geomechanical foundations of landslides of the earth surface above mines, which can be eliminated".

From 1970 to 1979, Yukhym Zvyahilsky worked at the Kuibyshev Mine Corporation of the Industrial Union "Donetskugol".

From 1979 through 1992, Yukhym Zvyahilsky was a director of the Zasyadko coal mine of the Industrial Union "Donetskugol".

In March 1990, as a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yukhym Zvyahilsky was elected to the Parliament of Ukraine from the 112th electoral district.

In June 1993, Yukhym Zvyahilsky was appointed to the Kuchma's Cabinet as the First Vice-Prime Minister.

Yukhym Zvyahilsky was the longest-serving Prime Minister without being officially appointed to the role.

Yukhym Zvyahilsky kept the appointment until Vitaliy Masol was confirmed as the Prime Minister of Ukraine in June 1994.

In March 1994, now as an independent, Yukhym Zvyahilsky was elected to the parliament from the 110th electoral district.

Yukhym Zvyahilsky became a member of the Verkhovna Rada, representing the ruling Party of Regions, and owner of the Zasyadko coal mine in Donetsk.

Yukhym Zvyahilsky did not participate in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election for the first time since 1990 he did not run for parliamentary elections.

Yukhym Zvyahilsky died on 6 November 2021, aged 88, from complications of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine.

Yukhym Zvyahilsky was co-president of the Jewish Conference of Ukraine.