Wladimir Schandra
Birth date: 11.01.1963
Wladimir Nikolayevich Schandra - Head of the Kyiv Oblast Administration (2014-2016), Minister for Emergency Situations and Population Protection from the Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe (2007-2010).
Birthplace. Education. Born in Zboriv, Ternopil Oblast. In 1987, he graduated from the Obninsk Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering, specializing in nuclear power plants and facilities. In 2006 - National Academy of Public Administration (graduated as a finance master).
Career. He began his professional career after graduation in 1980 as a grinder at the Ternopol plant of the XXV Congress of the CPSU.
After graduating from the institute, he worked from 1987 at the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant: as a reactor operations technician, as a senior engineer for repair and operation of reactor equipment, as a chief engineer for reactor control.
From 1992 to 2002, he held leading positions in the real economic sector.
Political career. In 2002, he was elected as a deputy of Ukraine on the list of the electoral block of political parties Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine. He was deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee on industrial policy and entrepreneurship.
From February 2005 to August 2006, he served as Minister of Industrial Policy of Ukraine in the governments of Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuriy Yekhanurov.
From 2006 to 2007 - advisor to the Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.
From December 2006 to August 2008, he was a member of the supervisory board of UkrEximBank.
On December 18, 2007, shortly after the formation of the parliamentary coalition of the Yulia Tymoshenko Block and the pro-presidential block Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (NUNS), he was appointed Minister for Emergency Situations and Population Protection from the Consequences of the Chernobyl Catastrophe in the second Tymoshenko Cabinet, replacing the representative of the Party of Regions Nestor Shufrich.
He lost his position in the government in March 2010 due to the resignation of the government after Viktor Yanukovych's victory in the presidential elections.
On March 2, 2014, he was appointed head of the Kyiv Oblast Administration by order of the acting President of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov, replacing Anatoliy Prysyazhnyuk.
On February 3, 2016, he was dismissed from the position of head of the Kyiv Oblast Administration by order of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, and his successor in this position was Maxym Melnychuk.
Doctor of Economic Sciences with a focus on economics and economic administration. Recipient of the Order of Merit III degree.
Family. Married, he has two sons.
29.12.2023