Viktor Pynzenyk
| Viktor Pynzenyk Віктор Пинзеник |
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| Minister of Finance of Ukraine | |
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In office December 18, 2007 – February 17, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Mykola Azarov |
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In office February 4, 2005 – September 28, 2005 September 28, 2005 – August 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Mykola Azarov |
| Succeeded by | Mykola Azarov |
| First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
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In office October 31, 1994 – September 5, 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Yevhen Marchuk |
| Succeeded by | Pavlo Lazarenko |
| Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
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In office August 3, 1995 – September 21, 1996 September 21, 1996 – April 7, 1997 |
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April 15, 1954 Smolohovytsia, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Non affiliated |
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Unaffiliated (since 2010 and before 2002) Reforms and Order Party (1997-2010) |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Romanivna (1969) |
| Children | Olga (1981), Yulia (1989), and Volodymyr (1993) |
| Occupation | Politician, economist and professor |
Viktor Mykhailovych Pynzenyk (Ukrainian: Віктор Михайлович Пинзеник) (born April 15, 1954 in Smolohovytsia, Zakarpattia Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and former Minister of Finance. He is the former leader of the Reforms and Order Party.
Pynzenyk has been credited with economic reform in post-Soviet Ukraine, helping to transform the country into a market economy and introducing Ukraine's new currency, the hryvnia in September 1996, with the help of Viktor Yushchenko, at the time Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.
Viktor Pynzenyk was born on April 15, 1954 in Smolohovytsia, in the westernmost Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) to Mykhailo and Mariya Pynzenyk. After completing his secondary education, Pynzenyk studied at the Lviv State University, from which he graduated in 1975 as an economist. He stayed on in the same university until 1979 for the post-graduate work on his dissertation in Economics which he defended in 1980 receiving the degree of Candidate of Science (roughly Ph.D. equivalent). He continued his scientific work in the Moscow State University where he received his Doktor of Science degree in 1989. A year later, Pynzenyk became a professor of economics at his alma mater—the Lviv University.
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