Oleksandr Yefremov
| Oleksandr Yefremov | |
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| 4th Governor of Luhansk Oblast | |
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In office April, 1998 – 26 January 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Hennady Fomenko |
| Succeeded by | Oleksiy Danilov |
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August 22, 1954 Voroshylovhrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Party of Regions |
| Alma mater | East Ukraine Volodymyr Dahl National University |
| Religion | Orthodoxy |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | ||||
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| 5th convocation | ||||
| May 25, 2006 – November 23, 2007 | ||||
| Elected as: Party of Regions, No.19 | ||||
| 6th convocation | ||||
| November 23, 2007 – December 12, 2012 | ||||
| Elected as: Party of Regions, No.8 | ||||
| 7th convocation | ||||
| December 12, 2012 – November 27, 2014 | ||||
| Elected as: Party of Regions, No.5 | ||||
Oleksandr Yefremov or Aleksandr Efremov (Ukrainian: Олександр Сергійович Єфремов, Russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ефре́мов) is a Ukrainian parliamentary and statesman. A former governor of the Luhansk Oblast, from 2010 until 2014 he was Party of Regions's faction leader in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament). On 14 February 2015 Yefremov was detained on suspicion of "abuse of power under aggravating circumstances". This arrest was effectively ended when his bail expired on 1 November 2015. Yefremov was again detained on 30 July 2016 on suspicion of violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity by helping to create the Luhansk People's Republic and misappropriation of property.
Yefremov was born in Voroshylovhrad on August 22, 1954 to an ethnic Russian family of Sergei Serafimovich Yefremov and Nadezhda Stepanovna. In 1973-78 he studied and successfully graduated from the Voloshylovhrad Machine-building Institute (today the East Ukraine Volodymyr Dahl National University) as engineer-mechanic. After graduating Yefremov became employed as an engineer-technologist at the Lenin Machine-building Plant in Luhansk. From October 1978 to April 1980 he served at the Kiev Military District military site #68302, the 692nd Communication Unit of Civil Defense Headquarters (Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian SSR).
In 1980-87 Yefremov worked as a Komsomol activist, until 1983 as the 1st secretary of the Leninsky Raion of Luhansk and then of the whole city. In 1987-91 he was on managerial positions at the Lenin Machine-building Plant, deputy chief of department, sectary of party committee. During this time in 1990-92 Yefremov studied and graduated from the Kiev Institute of Political Science and Social Administration as a political scientist. The institute was officially liquidated in March 1992.
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