Viktor Korzh
Date of Birth: 03.08.1957
Place of Birth. Education. Viktor Korzh was born in Kharkiv to professional philologists. In 1981, he graduated with honors from the Medical Institute of Kharkiv. In 1989, he again graduated with 'excellent' from the Institute of Physical Education in Kyiv. He has been a Doctor of Sports Sciences in the field of Sports Medicine since 2010.
Career. Viktor Korzh began working as a doctor at the 27th hospital of Kharkiv in 1982. From 1983 to 1985, he was a doctor and then the chief physician of the Sports Medicine Center of the Council for Physical Education and Sports of Kharkiv. In the following four years, he served as the deputy chairman of the Kharkiv 'Dynamo' council. In the mid-90s, he briefly led the joint-stock company Investor as deputy chairman. From 1995 to 1997, he worked as the first deputy chairman of the Kharkiv 'Dynamo' council and then moved to the capital for a promotion. In Kyiv, Korzh was appointed the first deputy chairman of the FSU 'Dynamo' of Ukraine. There he worked until 2005 and then retired, holding the rank of Major General of Police.
In the 2006 elections, Korzh was elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the Party of Regions in 172nd place. In Parliament, he chaired the 'Sports and Recreation' subcommittee of the Committee on Family, Youth, Sports, and Tourism.
On December 1, 2006, Korzh was appointed Minister for Family by Parliament (he replaced the Ukrainian Yuri Pavlenko in this position). After the early parliamentary elections of 2007, which led to a government reshuffle, he lost his ministerial position.
Since 2008, he has been a member of the Ukrainian Parliament of the VI. Congress and the deputy chairman of the Health Committee.
A recognized worker in the field of physical education and sports, an international master in cycling.
Since 2009, he has been the vice president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.
On August 19, 2010, he was elected as the chairman of the Sports Council 'Dynamo' of Ukraine.
Non-partisan.
In the 2012 parliamentary elections, he ran in electoral district No. 197 in Chernihiv Oblast. The leader in the race for this district was the independent candidate Bohdan Hubsky; however, the Central Election Commission decided that the results of the elections could not be determined, and the Verkhovna Rada scheduled re-elections in districts 197 and four other problematic districts.
On February 19, 2013, Korzh was appointed as the deputy chairman of the Kyiv city government. According to the distribution of tasks among the deputy chairmen of the Kyiv City Council, Korzh was responsible for the fields of culture, education and science, youth and sports, medicine, and social protection of the population.
On February 27, 2014, Korzh submitted his resignation from his position. Since 2015, he has been the first deputy chairman of the FSU 'Dynamo' of Ukraine.
Vice-President of the NOC of Ukraine, first vice-president of the Ukrainian Biathlon Federation.
Views. In various interviews, Korzh expressed his deep sadness that Ukrainian athletes participate in advertising campaigns of alcohol and tobacco manufacturers. He sees this as a bad example for the youth and believes that special attention should be paid to this problem. In his opinion, the health of the nation is in an extremely alarming state. He also sees various problems in Olympic sports. He announced his intention to return lottery revenues to sports and involve alcohol and tobacco manufacturers to solve sports and physical education issues as compensation for the harm caused to society by their products. He also advocated for the popularization of the adoption of orphans by Ukrainian families. He expresses his sympathy for 'normal and balanced deputies belonging to BJuT'. He considers it abnormal that the president and the parliamentary-governmental coalition are representatives of different political forces. After Ukraine's victory in the struggle for the right to host Euro 2012, the minister described this event as significant and clearly raised the euro-integration prospects of the country.
In 2006, Korzh told the newspaper Fakty in an interview how he was gifted a brand new professional super bike worth nothing more and nothing less than $10,000 by world champion in cycling Andrei Chmyria. This gift was clearly not chosen by chance: the regional champion in cycling was the international champion in cycling. Moreover, he is a honored worker in the field of physical education and sports, president of the Gymnastics Federation of Ukraine, vice-president of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine. He has been awarded the orders 'For Merits' (III class) and Daniel Galitsky and, as mentioned in his autobiography, 'with distinctions from all law enforcement agencies.'
Family, Hobby. Korzh is married. The couple has raised two sons who are twins. One of them graduated from the Law Academy in Kharkiv. The other lived with relatives in the USA and completed his studies at the University of Arizona.
Korzh is engaged in sports, loves to pour cold water on himself. His hobby is collecting old coins and banknotes (especially Russian).
03.08.2022