Wiktor Juszczenko

Date of Birth: 23.02.1954

Wiktor Andrijovych Juszczenko – the third president of Ukraine (2005-2010). Prime Minister of Ukraine (1999-2001), leader of the Our Ukraine party (2005-2013). Member of the Ukrainian parliament of the Fifth Convocation (2002-2005). Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine (1993-2000), leader of the Orange Revolution.

Honored economist of Ukraine (1997), laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology (1999), candidate of economic sciences (1998).

Place of birth. Education. Born in the village of Choruževka in the Sumy region in a family of teachers. Father - Andriy Andrijovych Juszczenko (1919-1992), a soldier who taught English in the local school after the war. Mother - Varvara Tymofiyivna Juszczenko (1918-2005), a teacher of physics and mathematics. Juszczenko obtained higher education at the Ternopil Financial and Economic Institute (graduated in 1975). Doctor of economic sciences. Defended his doctoral thesis on 'The Development of Money Demand and Supply in Ukraine'. Member of the National Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Economic Cybernetics.

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Career. He started working in 1975 as an assistant chief accountant of the October 40th kolkhoz.

1975-1976 - service in border troops on the Soviet-Turkish border.

From 1976 to 1985, he served as an economist and headed the branch of the Ukrainian Branch of the State Bank of the USSR in Ulyanovsk.

1985-1987 - deputy head of the office of the Ukrainian management of the State Bank.

1988-1990 - head of management, deputy chairman of the board of the Ukrainian Republican Bank Agroprobank of the USSR.

1990-1993 - deputy, first deputy head of the board of the Republican AK APB Ukraine.

From 1993 to 1999, Juszczenko held the positions of chairman of the board and head of the National Bank of Ukraine. Under his leadership, the Ukrainian national currency - the hryvnia was introduced.

In 1999, he became Prime Minister of Ukraine. He was dismissed in April 2001. The official reason, according to the decree of President Leonid Kuchma, was the 'resignation of the government'. The unofficial reason was the increasing influence in political and business circles, growing popularity among the public.

After being dismissed before the parliamentary elections in 2002, Juszczenko became the director of the Ukraine-Russia Institute of Management and Business named after B. Yeltsin. After moving to the Verkhovna Rada with the Our Ukraine bloc, he became the leader of the faction of the same name and a member of the parliamentary committee on human rights, national minorities, and international relations. In the social field, from 2003 to January 2005, he served as chairman of the board of the all-Ukrainian social organization Our Ukraine and chairman of the supervisory board of the international charitable foundation 'Ukraine 3000'.

In 2004, Juszczenko ran in the next presidential elections in Ukraine, his main rival was the pro-Kremlin candidate, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. In the first half of September 2004, Juszczenko was taken to the Austrian clinic Rudolfinerhaus with symptoms of severe poisoning. His team loudly announced an attempt to poison the opposition candidate. The scandal caused a great stir both in Ukraine and abroad. It seems that there is no longer any doubt that dioxin poisoning was a fact.

In December 2004, the 're-election' of the second round of the elections, fought for during the Orange Revolution and legally obtained, took place. The presidential race was won by Juszczenko. On January 23, 2005, the inauguration of the new president of Ukraine took place (the third in the recent history of Ukraine after Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, who was the head of state twice).

In the fall of 2012, Juszczenko led the Our Ukraine party in the parliamentary elections, but failed to pass the electoral threshold of 5% - only 1.11% of voters supported the political force of the former president.

In May 2018, he was elected chairman of the supervisory board of Alpari Bank.

Honors, titles. Juszczenko - Knight of the Order 'For Merits' III degree. Like his predecessor in the presidency, Kuchma, he was awarded an honorary badge from the president of Ukraine. He holds the title of honored economist of Ukraine.

Family. The politician is married, has five children and four grandchildren. Wife - Kateryna Juszczenko (née Chumachenko), chairman of the supervisory board of the international charitable foundation 'Ukraine 3000', actively engages in charitable activities. Sons - Andriy and Taras, daughters - Vitalina, Sofia, and Krystyna, grandchildren - Yarinka, Viktor, Adriana, and Varvara.

Older brother Pyotr Juszczenko - a deputy in the parliament of the IV-VI convocation from Our Ukraine. Nephew Yaroslav Juszczenko was the deputy of the former governor of Kharkiv region Arsen Avakov.

Hobby. He is interested in painting, beekeeping, ceramics, and collecting Ukrainian antiquities. He enjoys spending time with his family.

03.11.2023.