Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych
| Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych Виктор Янукович |
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
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In office 25 May 2006 – 27 November 2014 |
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16 July 1981 Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 20 March 2015 (aged 33) Lake Baikal, Russia |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | Party of Regions |
| Spouse(s) | Olga Stanislavovna Yanukovych |
| Children | Iliya |
| Parents | Viktor Yanukovych and Lyudmilla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych (neé Nastenko) |
| Alma mater | Donetsk National University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych (Ukrainian: Віктор Вікторович Янукович, Russian: Виктор Викторович Янукович; 16 July 1981 – 20 March 2015) was a Ukrainian politician and Member of Parliament. He was the son of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Yanukovych was born 16 July 1981 in Yenakiieve, Donetsk region, to Viktor Yanukovych and Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych. He graduated from high school with a silver medal in 1998.
From 1998 to 2003 he studied at Donetsk National University, majoring in "Enterprise Economy". He received a master's degree in “Enterprise Economics”. On 17 June 2009 he defended his dissertation titled "Formation and implementation of state social policy" at Donetsk State University of Management, earning a PhD in public administration.
From June 2002 to September 2004 Yanukovych served as a vice-president of the Donetsk regional public organization “Regional Center Spryiannia” (Promotion). From July 2004 to November 2004 he served as first deputy general director of SK, a limited liability company in Donetsk. Beginning in November 2005 he held the post of first deputy general director of BK Engineering. From November 2005 to 2010 he worked as deputy head of the Ukrainian youth public organization “Soyuz molodi regioniv Ukrainy” (Union of Ukrainian Youth of Regions). Since May 2006 – MP (V and VI and VII parliamentary sessions), from the Party of Regions. In 2010 he became the Honorary President of the Ukrainian youth public political organization Young Regions.
During the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was re-elected into parliament.
Yanukovych was the initiator and project manager of the Ukrainian SMS referendum "For the Russian language." The referendum, held in Ukraine from 17 January to 17 March 2006, became a public opinion poll on the question of granting Russian as the second official language. The SMS referendum was recognised by Book of Records Ukraine for "The most massive online poll in Ukraine" and "the most massive SMS poll in Ukraine."
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