Ihor Fedorovych Sharov

Igor (or Ihor) Fedorovych Sharov (Ukrainian: Ігор Шаров) (born 1961) is a Ukrainian politician, a member of Parliament of Ukraine (MP) and a writer. He was a parliamentary representative of the Lytvyn Bloc in 2006-7, and a leading figure in the Labour Ukraine party. He was instrumental in obtaining compensation for many victims of Nazi persecution. He has written a number of non-fiction works.

Sharov was born on 10 August 1961 in the village Skalivski Khutory of Kropyvnytskyi (former Kirovograd) region, Ukraine. His father, Fedir Makarovych Sharov (1928–1996), was a military man; his mother, Maria Korniyivna Sharova (1937–2009), was a headteacher of a pre-school educational institution. Since 1974 they lived in Kropyvnytskyi (former Kirovograd). The purpose of the move was to give their children a good education.

In 1976, Sharov was sent by Kirovograd military city commissariat to study at the Mukhin Kirovohrad Medical School. He graduated from it in 1980.

In 1987 he majored as a historian and social scientist at the A.S.Pushkin Kirovohrad Pedagogical Institute (now Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University) and in 1998 as an economist at the Academy of Labour and Social Affairs (Kyiv).

In 1991 he finished his post-graduate studies at the Kyiv Institute of Foreign Languages. He was a candidate of Historical Sciences and presented a thesis "The working class of Ukraine in the production branch in the age of formation and strengthening of a command economy (end of 20 - 30 years)", defended at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

He served in the Army as a part of the Pskov and Vitebsk air-landing divisions (Afghanistan). As a captain in reserve Igor Sharov till now maintains close relations with the Afghanistan Veterans of Kropyvnytskyi.

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