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Ivan Plyushch

Ivan Plyushch
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Secretary of the Security and Defense Council
In office
May 12, 2007 – November 26, 2007
President Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by Vitaliy Haiduk
Succeeded by Raisa Bohatyryova
1st and 4th Chairman of Verkhovna Rada
In office
February 1, 2000 – May 14, 2002
President Leonid Kuchma
Preceded by Oleksandr Tkachenko
Succeeded by Volodymyr Lytvyn
In office
December 5, 1991 – May 11, 1994
President Leonid Kravchuk
Preceded by Leonid Kravchuk
Succeeded by Oleksandr Moroz
First Deputy Chairman of Verkhovna Rada
In office
June 6, 1990 – December 5, 1991
Speaker Leonid Kravchuk
Succeeded by Vasyl Durdynets
In office
1985–1990
Speaker Volodymyr Ivashko
Personal details
Born September 11, 1941
Borzna, Chernihiv Oblast,
Soviet Union
Died June 25, 2014(2014-06-25) (aged 72)
Alma mater National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine
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People's Deputy of Ukraine
1st convocation
May 15, 1990 – May 10, 1994
Elected as: Communist Party of Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, District No.221
2nd convocation
May 10, 1994 – May 12, 1998
Elected as: Independent, Chernihiv Oblast, District No.445
3rd convocation
May 12, 1998 – May 14, 2002
Elected as: People's Democratic Party, No.3
4th convocation
May 14, 2002 – May 25, 2006
Elected as: People's Democratic Party, Chernihiv Oblast, District No.209
6th convocation
November 23, 2007 – December 12, 2012
Elected as: Independent, No.23

Ivan Stepanovych Plyushch (Ukrainian: Іван Степанович Плющ; September 11, 1941 – June 25, 2014) was a Ukrainian politician. He thrice served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine), from July 9 to July 23, 1990 (acting), from December 5, 1991, to May 11, 1994, and from February 1, 2000, to May 14, 2002.

Ivan Plyushch was born on September 11, 1941, in Borzna in Chernihiv Oblast. After graduation in 1959 from Borzna Agricultural College he started his professional career as a mid-level worker, an agronomist, and the head of a division in a few state farms (Ukrainian: radhosp) and collective farms (Ukrainian: kolhosp) in Baryshivka Raion. Between 1967 and 1974 Plyushch was the head of Kirov collective farm and the head of Lenin state farm in Baryshivka Raion. Between 1975 and 1977 he was in Kiev working as a vice-deputy of a Kiev Oblast regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Between 1977 and 1979 Plyushch studied in Moscow at the Central Committee of the Communist Party Academy of Social Science. After his studies he continued working in Kiev in the divisions of the Communist Party of Kiev Oblast. In 1984 he became the vice-head, and later the head of Kiev Oblast Administration. In 1990 he was elected the head of Kiev Oblast Rada.


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