Arsen Avakov
| Arsen Avakov | |
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| 11th Minister of Internal Affairs | |
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Assumed office 22 February 2014 Interim: 22 February 2014 – 27 February 2014 |
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| Prime Minister |
Arseniy Yatsenyuk Volodymyr Groysman |
| Preceded by | Vitaliy Zakharchenko |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 2, 1964 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship | Ukraine |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Political party | People's Front (2014–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
Fatherland (2010–2014) Our Ukraine (until 2010) |
| Spouse(s) | Inna |
| Children | Oleksandr |
| Alma mater | Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute |
| Awards |
 65 Years of Liberation of the Belarusian Republic from German-Fascist Invaders |
| Website | www |
| Deputy of the Kharkiv Oblast Council | ||||
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| 5th session | ||||
| April 2006 – April 2010 | ||||
| Elected as: Our Ukraine, | ||||
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
| 7th convocation | ||||
| December 12, 2012 – March 17, 2014 | ||||
| Elected as: Fatherland, No.24 | ||||
| 8th convocation | ||||
| November 27, 2014 – December 2, 2014 | ||||
| Elected as: People's Front, No.6 | ||||
Arsen Borysovych Avakov (Ukrainian: Арсен Борисович Аваков; born January 2, 1964) is a Ukrainian politician and businessman. Between 2005 and 2010 he was Governor of Kharkiv Oblast. Following the February 2014 revolution, he was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. He was reappointed to the same position in the December 2014.
Arsen Avakov was born to an Armenian family on January 2, 1964 in Kirov town (Kirovskiy district which is now Binagadinskiy district) of Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan. "Avakov" is the Russified version of the Armenian surname "Avagyan" (also transliterated as "Avakyan" or "Avakian"). He moved to Ukraine with his family in 1966.
From 1981 to 1982, Avakov worked as a laboratory assistant for the Chair for Automated Control Systems at the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute. In 1988, he graduated from Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute as a systems engineer with a major in automated control systems. From 1987 to 1990 he worked as an in Kharkiv. He joined a commercial bank in 1992, becoming a member of its supervisory board.
In 2002, Avakov was elected a member of the Executive Committee of Kharkiv City Council. During the presidential electoral campaign in 2004, he was the deputy head of Kharkiv Regional Headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko, a presidential candidate, and the First Deputy Head of “The National Salvation Committee” in Kharkiv region.
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