Vadym Hetman

Vadym Hetman Вадим Гетьман
Vadym Hetman's portrait.
2nd Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine
In office March 24, 1992 – 1993
Preceded by	Volodymyr Matvienko
Succeeded by	Viktor Yushchenko
Personal details
Born	Vadym Petrovych Hetman July 12, 1935 Snityn, Ukrainian SSR
Died	April 22, 1998(1998-04-22) (aged 62) Kiev, Ukraine
Political party	None; Independent
Relations	Wife and two children
Occupation	Statesman and banker
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Vadym Petrovych Hetman (Ukrainian: Вадим Петрович Гетьман; July 12, 1935 – April 22, 1998) was a Ukrainian statesman and banker. He is credited with the creation of the central bank of the country, the National Bank of Ukraine.

He was assassinated in April 1998 in his home in Kiev. According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine the crime was paid for by former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko. He was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine on July 11, 2005.

Vadym Petrovych Hetman was born in the village of Snityn, located in Poltava Oblast (at the time, the Ukrainian SSR), in 1935.

In 1956, he finished the Kiev Financial-Economic Institute, after which he worked in various financial institutions in Zaporizhia Oblast. In 1975, Vadym Hetman was named the first vice-president to the Head of the Government Committee of Pricing of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1987, he became the head of the Agricultural-Industrial Bank of the Ukrainian SSR (since 1990 — Bank "Ukraine").

On March 24, 1992, Vadym Hetman was accepted as the Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine. He supervised early monetary reforms in newly independent Ukraine through 1993, when he resigned from his position as the head of the supervisory board of the National Bank. However, he maintained close ties with his successor, Viktor Yushchenko. Interestingly, Hetman's signature appears on the original banknotes of Ukraine's national currency, the hryvnia, which was introduced only in September 1996.