Petro Krupko

The Biography of Petro Krupko

Date of Birth: 05.03.1958

Place of Birth. Education. Petro Krupko was born in the village of Bondari in the Chernihiv region. He graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a degree in 'Lawyer'.

Career. He began his career in the apparatus of the Ukrainian government during the Soviet era, when this body was still called the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

Later he held the position of the first deputy head of the legal department, the first deputy head, the head of the legal department of the Cabinet of Ministers, and the deputy government secretary of the Cabinet - director of the legal department.

From 2001 - deputy government secretary of the Cabinet, director of the legal department of the Secretariat of the Cabinet, deputy minister, first deputy minister of the Cabinet.

From March 23 to September 27, 2005 - Minister of the Cabinet in the first Cabinet of Yulia Tymoshenko.

From October 2005 to February 2007 - first deputy minister of justice. He worked with ministers Serhiy Holovatyj, Roman Swarytsch, and Oleksandr Lawrynowytsch. As the first deputy minister of justice, he was represented on the supervisory board of Naftogaz of Ukraine. For personal reasons, he was dismissed as deputy minister of justice.

In the early parliamentary elections of 2007, he was elected as a people's deputy of Ukraine from the list of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

From December 2007 to March 2010 - Minister of the Cabinet in the second coalition government of Yulia Tymoshenko (according to the BYuT quota).

Reviews. According to Ukrainska Pravda, Petro Krupko managed to become Minister of the Cabinet partly by a lucky coincidence. In the winter of 2005, when most high-ranking officials left the government building after the 'Orange Revolution', Krupko remained. And he was the one who welcomed Yulia Tymoshenko in February, after her appointment as Prime Minister, on her first working day in the Cabinet in front of the government building with a bouquet of white roses. And soon after, he became a minister.

For security reasons, he was assigned the former chairman of the board of the 'Tymoshenko' Corporation 'United Energy Systems of Ukraine' Yevhen Shaho as the first deputy minister. However, Petro Krupko was entrusted with the minister’s office the second time already as a proven member of the Tymoshenko team.

Award. Honored Lawyer of Ukraine.

05.03.2022