Vyacheslav Kyrylenko

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko В'ячеслав Анатолійович Кириленко
Kyrylenko in 2015
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for humanitarian matters
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 December 2014
Prime Minister	Arseniy Yatsenyuk Volodymyr Groysman
Preceded by	Oleksandr Sych
Minister of Culture
In office 2 December 2014 – 14 April 2016
Prime Minister	Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Preceded by	Yevhen Nyshchuk
Succeeded by	Yevhen Nyshchuk
Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine (humanitarian matters)
In office 27 September 2005 – 4 August 2006
Prime Minister	Yuriy Yekhanurov
Preceded by	Mykola Tomenko
Succeeded by	Dmytro Tabachnyk
Minister of Labor and Social Policy of Ukraine
In office 4 February 2005 – 27 September 2005
Prime Minister	Yulia Tymoshenko
Preceded by	Mykhailo Papiev
Succeeded by	Ivan Sakhan
Personal details
Born	(1968-05-18) May 18, 1968 (age 48) Poliske, Ukrainian SSR
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	People's Front
Other political affiliations	For Ukraine!(2009–2014) People's Movement of Ukraine(1993–2002) Ukrainian People's Party(2002–2005) People's Union Our Ukraine(2007–2009)
Spouse(s)	Kateryna
Children	Daughter and son
Alma mater	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Occupation	Politician
Website	www.kyrylenko.com.ua

Vyacheslav Anatoliyovych Kyrylenko (Ukrainian: В'ячеслав Анатолійович Кириленко) is a Ukrainian politician; former Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Vice Prime Minister, former party leader of Our Ukraine and former leader of the party For Ukraine!. Since September 2014 he is one of the leaders of the party People's Front.

During his studies at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyrylenko was one of the initiators a political student strike at the October Revolution Square in Kiev, which was held from October 12 to 17, 1990, which eventually led to the resignation the Chairmen of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine Vitaly Masol. In the years 1992 and 1993 Kyrylenko was head of the Ukrainian Student Union and became a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine, He soon became the head of the youth wing of this party and stayed that until 2002 while meanwhile becoming a Doctor of Philosophy at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (in 1993 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy and he received a PhD in Philosophy in 1997).

In 2002 Kyrylenko became the Deputy Head of the Ukrainian People's Party. During the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kyrylenko was elected into the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament); he has been re-elected into the Verkhovna Rada since. In 2005 Kyrylenko became the Minister of Labor and Social Policy in the first Tymoshenko Government and a Vice Prime Minister later that year in the Yekhanurov Government until the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election. In December 2006 Kyrylenko was elected as Head of the Parliamentary Faction "Our Ukraine" and on March 31, 2007 was elected the head of the People's Union Our Ukraine. During the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election was Kyrylenko the top candidate of Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc on its party list. The alliance lost 9 seats but its percentage of total votes slightly improved.