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Sergiy Tigipko

Serhiy Tihipko
Сергій Тiгiпко
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Sergei Tigipko (8240397873).jpg
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
12 December 2012 – 27 November 2014
Vice Prime MinisterMinister of social policy
In office
11 March 2010 – 24 December 2012
Prime Minister Mykola Azarov
Preceded by Vasyl Nadraha
Succeeded by Natalia Korolevska
Minister of Economics
In office
31 December 1999 – 5 July 2000
Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by Vasyl Rohovyi
Succeeded by Vasyl Rohovyi
5th Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine
In office
17 December 2002 – 16 December 2004
President Leonid Kuchma
Preceded by Volodymyr Stelmakh
Succeeded by Volodymyr Stelmakh
Personal details
Born Sergei Leonidovych Tihipko
(1960-02-13) 13 February 1960 (age 57)
Dragoneshty, Moldovan SSR
Nationality Ukrainian
Political party Strong Ukraine (2014-current)
Other political
affiliations
Party of Regions (2012-2014)
Strong Ukraine (2009-2012)
Labour Ukraine (2000-2004), Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1984-1991)
Spouse(s) Viktoriya Tigipko
Children Hanna (born 1984)
Occupation politician
Website www.tigipko.com
Military service
Allegiance  Soviet Union
Service/branch Soviet Army

Serhiy Leonidovych Tihipko or Sergiy Tigipko (Ukrainian: Сергій Леонідович ТiгiпкоRussian: Сергей Леонидович Тигипко) (born 13 February 1960) is a Ukrainian politician and finance specialist who has been Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. Tihipko was Minister of Economics in 2000 and subsequently served as Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine from 2002 to 2004. He ran unsuccessfully for President of Ukraine in the 2010 presidential election and participated in the 2014 presidential election, in which he placed fifth with 5.23 percent of the vote. Tihipko is also former Vice Prime MinisterMinister of social policy.

Tihipko was born on 13 February 1960 in the village of Drăgăneşti, Sîngerei, in the Lazovskiy district of the Moldovian SSR in Ukrainian family who moved there from Podolia in 1902. His father fought in World War II where he was badly wounded, and died when Tihipko was 10. His mother was a village nurse. He has two brothers: one six years older, and one two years younger.

Tihipko grew up in suburb of Chisinau and moved to Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR after finishing school when he was 17.

Tihipko was educated at the local school in Lazovskiy district, and then went to university in Dnipropetrovsk, where he graduated in engineering-metallurgy from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute in 1982.


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