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Vasyl Durdynets

Vasyl Durdynets
Василь Васильович Дурдинець
Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine on matters of State Security and Emergencies
In office
3 July 1995 – 18 June 1996
Prime Minister Yevhen Marchuk
First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
18 June 1996 – 30 July 1997
Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko
Preceded by Pavlo Lazarenko
Succeeded by Anatoliy Holubchenko
Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine (ex officio)
In office
2 July 1997 – 30 July 1997
President Leonid Kuchma
Preceded by Pavlo Lazarenko
Succeeded by Valeriy Pustovoitenko
Director of the National Bureau of Investigations
In office
July 1997 – March 1999
President Leonid Kuchma
Preceded by Oleh Lytvak
Succeeded by office dissolved
Minister on matters of Emergencies and population security from consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster
In office
22 March 1999 – 30 November 2002
Prime Minister Valeriy Pustovoitenko
Viktor Yushchenko
Anatoliy Kinakh
Preceded by Valeriy Kalchenko
Succeeded by Hryhoriy Reva
6th Ambassador of Ukraine to Hungary
In office
2 December 2002 – 15 July 2003
Preceded by Orest Klimpush
Succeeded by Yuriy Mushka
4th Ambassador of Ukraine to Slovenia
In office
2 December 2002 – 15 July 2003
Preceded by Orest Klimpush
Succeeded by Ivan Hnatyshyn
People's Deputy of Ukraine
1st convocation
In office
15 May 1990 – 10 May 1994
Constituency Communist Party of Ukraine, Kirovohrad Oblast, District No.230
2nd convocation
In office
10 May 1994 – 3 September 1996
Constituency Independent, Kirovohrad Oblast, District No.229
Personal details
Born (1937-09-27) 27 September 1937 (age 79)
Romočevica, Czechoslovakia (now Romochevytsia, Mukachevo Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine)

(Maj. Gen. Ret.) Vasyl Vasylovych Durdynets (Ukrainian: Василь Васильович Дурдинець, b. 27 September 1937) is a Ukrainian statesman and diplomat. He served as Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine during a short period in July 1997.

Vasyl Durdynets was born into peasant family in Czechoslovakia before World War II. In 1960 he graduated the Law faculty of Ivano Franko Lviv State University. In 1958 through 1970 Durdynets was an active member of the Komsomol of Ukraine (1958-1966) and Komsomol (1966-1970) in Lviv, Moscow, and Kiev. In 1970 he became a staff member of the Lviv regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

In 1978 Durdynets was appointed as a deputy and in 1982 he became the first deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, holding the post until February 1991. In March 1990 he was elected as a parliamentary to the Verkhovna Rada (first convocation) as member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union winning the 230th electoral district in Bobrynets, Kirovohrad Oblast. At the first (12th) convocation, Durdynets headed the parliamentary commission on matters of defense and state security and was a non-affiliated member of parliament. Since 29 January 1992 in Verkhovna Rada Durdynets served as vice-speaker (first deputy head).

To the next convocation Durdynets was reelected as non-affiliated at the 229th electoral district in the same city. At the second convocation Durdynets was a leader of deputy group "Center" and the parliamentary commission on fight with organized crime and corruption. Simultaneously he also served as the first deputy chairman of the Presidential coordination committee in fight with corruption and organized crime.


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