Anatoliy Kinakh Анатолій Кінах |
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8th Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
In office May 29, 2001 – November 21, 2002 |
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President | Leonid Kuchma |
Preceded by | Viktor Yushchenko |
Succeeded by | Viktor Yanukovych |
First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
In office February 2005 – September 2005 |
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Prime Minister | Yulia Tymoshenko |
8th Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council | |
In office September 27, 2005 – May 16, 2006 |
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Preceded by | Petro Poroshenko |
Succeeded by | Volodymyr Horbulin |
Personal details | |
Born |
Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh 4 August 1954 Brătuşeni, Edineţ district, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Political party | Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs as part of the Party of Regions |
Other political affiliations |
Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine |
Spouse(s) | Maryna Volodymyrivna (1960) |
Children | Natalia (1980), Zoia (1984), Sofiya (2000) |
Alma mater | Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute |
Occupation | Politician, professor |
Religion | Ukrainian Orthodoxy |
Website | http://www.kinakh.com.ua/ |
Anatoliy Kyrylovych Kinakh (Ukrainian: Анатолій Кирилович Кінах) (born August 4, 1954) is a Ukrainian politician and honorary professor at the Mykolaiv Government Humanitarian University. Kinakh is a former (long serving) People's Deputy of Ukraine. Kinakh currently serves as the leader of Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine.
Previously, Kinakh was a Prime Minister from 2001 to 2002 under President Leonid Kuchma, a first vice-Prime Minister, and a Minister of Economics of Ukraine. Since 1996 Anatoliy Kinakh has been the President of Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, non-governmental business organization.
Anatoliy Kinakh was born in the village of Brătuşeni in the Moldavian SSR (now Moldova) on August 4, 1954. In 1978, he graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute as a shipbuilding engineer. After finishing his higher education, Kinakh started his engineering career at the Tallinn shipyard. From 1981 he worked at the Mykolaiv plant "Ocean".
In April 1990, he was elected to the Ukrainian parliament the Verkhovna Rada. There he worked on a committee dealing with economic reforms. In 1992, Kinakh was appointed as a representative of the President in the Mykolaiv Oblast (province) of southern Ukraine. In 1995, Anatoliy Kinakh was appointed Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine in the Cabinet of Yevhen Marchuk concerned with industrial affairs.