Ivan Kyrylenko
| Ivan Kyrylenko Іван Кириленко |
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Ivan Kyrylenko (2016)
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| Minister for Agriculture of Ukraine | |
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In office January 10, 2000 – November 26, 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Mykhailo Hladiy |
| Succeeded by | Serhiy Ryzhuk |
| Vice-Prime Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex | |
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In office November 26, 2002 – February 3, 2005 |
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| Personal details | |
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October 2, 1956  Berdyansk Raion, Zaporizhia Oblast (Ukrainian SSR) |
| Political party | All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" |
Ivan Hryhorovych Kyrylenko (Ukrainian: Іван Григорович Кириленко; born on October 2, 1956 in Berestove (Zaporizhia Oblast), Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian politician and from 2007 till December 2011 faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.
In 1978 he graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Agricultural Institute, specializing in agricultural scientist. In 1991, Kirilenko was a graduate of the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow, the specialty analyst.
Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History. He defended his thesis entitled "Social development of village: Experience, Problems, Prospects (for example Prydniprovia USSR)" in 1991 at the Academy of Social Sciences (Moscow), and in 1997 ibid - doctoral thesis "The formation and development of the agricultural economy in the form of a market transformation."
Before becoming a politician Kyrylenko worked as head of a collective farm (kolkhoz) and as a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
He was first elected into Parliament on an independent candidate on in December 1995 he then joined the faction Unity. At the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998 Kyrylenko was elected into Parliament on a Hromada ticket. When Yulia Tymoshenko set up the breakaway All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" faction Kyrylenko joined her.
Kyrylenko left Parliament 2001 to become Minister of Agriculture (in the Kinakh Government) and one of the founding members of (the now defunct electoral bloc) For United Ukraine in 2001. At the time of the next elections he was a member of the Agrarian Party (a part of For United Ukraine). Kyrylenko was Deputy Prime Minister in the First Yanukovych Government (2002-January 2005) cabinet of Viktor Yanukovych.
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