Pustovoytenko Valeriy

Date of birth: 23.02.1947

Place of birth. Education. Born in Adamovka, Berezan district, Nikolaev region, in a peasant family. In 1963, he graduated from Odessa Vocational School No. 9. In 1975, he graduated from Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Engineering and Construction as a mechanical engineer.

Career. 1963-1966, 1969 - Turner at the Odessa plant named after the October Revolution.

1966-1968 - Military service.

1969-1971 - Senior mechanic at the Polytechnic Institute of Odessa.

1971-1975 - Workshop master at Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Engineering and Construction.

1975-1984 - Workshop master, foreman, senior foreman, chief engineer of the mechanization department, chief engineer of the Dneprostroymekhanizatsiya Trust (Dnipropetrovsk).

1984-1986 - Head of the Dneprotiazhstroitmekhanizatsiya Trust.

1986-1987 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Babushkin District Council of Dnipropetrovsk.

1987-1989 - Deputy Chairman, 1989-1991 - Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Dnipropetrovsk City Council.

1990-1994 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament of the I convocation. Member of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada for Construction, Architecture, and Housing.

1991-1993 - Chairman of the City Council and the City Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk.

From April to September 1993, he was a minister in the Cabinet of Ukraine under Leonid Kuchma.

In September-October 1993, he was the Vice President of the Ukrainian State Construction Corporation.

From October 1993, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Credit Financing Union Expobank.

From July 1994 to July 1997, he was a minister in the Cabinet of Ukraine in the governments of Vitali Masol, Yevhen Marinchuk, Pavlo Lazarenko, Vasyl Durdynets.

From July 1997 to December 1999, he was the Prime Minister of Ukraine.

After resigning as Prime Minister, he focused on party work. From 2000 to 2006, he was the Chairman of the People's Party. Later, Ljudmila Suprun took over the position after the unfortunate parliamentary elections in 2006 for the politician.

From December 2000 to June 2001, he was an advisor to President Kuchma.

From June 2001 to April 2002, he was the Minister of Transport of Ukraine in the government of Anatoliy Kinach.

2002-2004 he served as a Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament of the IV convocation (No. 6 in the electoral list of the pro-presidential united list for Ukraine!). Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada for Construction, Transport, Housing, and Communications.

In 2006, he was for two months the Deputy Head of the City Administration and Mayor of Kyiv, Leonid Chernovetsky.

From April 9, 2010, to February 25, 2014, he was an advisor to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.

On February 24, 2014, he was dismissed by order of the acting President Alexander Turchinov as an advisor to the head of state.

Awards. Doctor of Technical Sciences. Honored Builder of Ukraine. Awarded with the Order of Yaroslav the Wise V, IV class (1999, 2002).

Family. The politician is married. He has sons - Sergei and Vyacheslav.

21.02.2022