Juri Orobec

Date of Birth:19.06.1955

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Ivano-Frankivsk to a family of an energy engineer and a physician. In 1977, he graduated as an electrical engineer from the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Oil and Gas. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Institute of Electrodynamics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1984, Orobec defended his dissertation on issues of energy management. Orobec is the author of 45 scientific papers on energy management and political science, as well as two inventions. He was awarded a prize at the competition for young scientists of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the silver medal of the All-Russian Exhibition of Economic Achievements.

Career. From 1980 to 1993, he worked at the Institute of Electrodynamics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. From 1989 to 1993, he was a member of the board of the 'Prosvita' Society. In 1993-1994, he led the project of the Scientific and Educational Center for Democratic Initiatives. Since 1994, Orobec has been the vice president of the Foundation for Political Science Research Ukrainian Perspective. In 2001, he was the deputy head of the consulting firm Abacus LLC.

He was a member of the Ukrainian parliament three times. In the second term parliament, he was an authorized deputy of the reform group and worked in the committee on fuel and energy complex, transport, and communications. At the time of the elections, he was a member of the Ukrainian Republican Party. In the fourth term parliament, he was a member of the 'Our Ukraine' faction (at the time of the elections non-partisan), and headed one of the subcommittees of the committee on fuel and energy complex, nuclear policy, and nuclear safety. In the next parliament, he was elected on the list of the 'Our Ukraine' bloc (No. 18) and was a member of the People's Union 'Our Ukraine' party. He headed the subcommittee on energy saving of the parliamentary committee on the issues of fuel and energy complex.

Views and assessments. He actively participated in the presidential election campaign of 2004 and in the 'orange revolution' on the side of the opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko. In 2004, he was involved in a political scandal when a group of deputies from the 'Our Ukraine' party attempted to prevent electoral fraud in the mayoral elections in Mukachevo.

On issues of Ukraine's energy security, especially in the field of oil supply, Orobec advocated more efficient use of resources of the UkrTatNafta company (a significant stake belongs to the state) instead of diversifying supplies from abroad or building new production facilities. He proposed to introduce a special 'green' tariff for electricity and heat energy from alternative sources (wind, water from small rivers, etc.) to promote the development of alternative, environmentally friendly energy.

During the parliamentary elections of 2006, the politician advocated for the formation of an 'orange' coalition. In the fall of 2006, he supported the restructuring of the parliamentary majority: the joining of Our Ukraine to the coalition of the Party of Regions - Social Party - Communist Party and the exclusion of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Family. The politician was married. His wife Oksana is a chemical engineer. The children are daughter Lesya and son Orest. During the early parliamentary elections of 2007, Orobec's daughter (born in 1982, non-partisan, private entrepreneur) was listed on the list of the Megablock of Democratic Forces Our Ukraine - People's Defense (place 18). As an already elected deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Lesya Orobec joined the new pro-presidential party Unified Center, the founding of which was promoted by the head of the presidential administration Viktor Baloga.

Tragic end. On October 16, 2006, Orobec died in a car accident at the wheel of his Toyota Camry on Obolonsky Prospekt in Kyiv. Between the Obolon and Petrivka metro stations, the car went off the green lawn separating the two lanes and crashed into a metal support with an advertisement.

The next day, on October 17, Orobec was to report to the president on the situation in the center of the region as the chairman of the temporary parliamentary committee on violations during the mayoral elections in Chernihiv. In Chernihiv, the mayoral elections were canceled twice - on March 26 and June 18, 2006. The re-vote was scheduled for November 5, 2006.

09.16.2007