Ihor Yukhnovskyi
| Ihor Yukhnovskyi | |
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| First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
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In office October 1992 – March 1993 |
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| Prime Minister | Leonid Kuchma |
| Preceded by | Valentyn Symonenko |
| Succeeded by | Yukhym Zvyahilsky |
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September 1, 1925 Kniahynyny, Dubno powiat, Wołyń Voivodeship |
| Political party | People's Movement of Ukraine |
| Spouse(s) | Nina Vasylivna |
| Children | Natalia (1952) Pavlo (1957) |
| Alma mater | Lviv University |
| Occupation | Physicist, politician, writer |
Ihor Yukhnovskyi (Ukrainian: Iгор Рафаïлович Юхновський; also Yukhnovsky; born 1925) is a Ukrainian physicist, politician, and statesman, a member of the Presidium of Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine.
Yukhnovskyi was born September 1, 1925 in Kniahynyny village, Dubno powiat, Wołyń Voivodeship (Poland). In 1944-45 participated in World War II on a side of Soviet Army. In 1951 he became the head of Theoretical Physics Department at Lviv University. In 1969 Yukhnovskyi, at that time Doctor of Physics and Mathematics led the newly organized Department of Statistical Theory of Condensed Matter. in 1980 the department was reorganized into the Lviv division of statistical physics for the Institute for Theoretical Physics, and then in 1990 into the Institute of Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
On March 30, 1990 Yukhnovskyi was elected with 59.07% votes (out of 6 candidates) as a member of parliament of Ukrainian SSR from an election district in the city of Lviv. On May 15, 1990 he became the leader of the first ever opposition party in the Ukrainian SSR parliament named "Narodna Rada" (People’s Council).
In the first presidential elections in Ukraine he was supported by 554,719 voters (1.74%) and took 5th place out of 6 candidates. In 1992 he was appointed as the first vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.
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