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Arsen Avakov (politician)

Arsen Avakov
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11th Minister of Internal Affairs
Assumed office
22 February 2014
Interim: 22 February 2014 – 27 February 2014
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Volodymyr Groysman
Preceded by Vitaliy Zakharchenko
Deputy of the Kharkiv Oblast Council
5th session
In office
April 2006 – April 2010
Constituency Our Ukraine
People's Deputy of Ukraine
7th convocation
In office
December 12, 2012 – March 17, 2014
Constituency Fatherland, No.24
8th convocation
In office
November 27, 2014 – December 2, 2014
Constituency People's Front, No.6
Personal details
Born (1964-01-02) January 2, 1964 (age 53)
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 victory belorussiya rib.png 65 Years of Liberation of the Belarusian Republic from German-Fascist Invaders
Website www.avakov.com

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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