Yuriy Shcherbak
| Yuriy M. Scherbak Юрій Миколайович Щербак |
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| 1st Minister of Natural Environment Protection | |
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In office June 1991 – October 1992 |
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| Prime Minister | Vitold Fokin |
| Preceded by | State Committee Chairman |
| Succeeded by | Yuriy Kostenko |
| Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel | |
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In office October 29, 1992 – October 22, 1994 |
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| President | Leonid Kravchuk |
| Preceded by | Post created |
| Succeeded by | Oleksandr Maidannyk |
| Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States | |
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In office 1994–1998 |
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| President | Leonid Kuchma |
| Preceded by | Oleh Bilorus |
| Succeeded by | Anton Buteyko |
| Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada | |
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In office March 9, 2000 – April 7, 2003 |
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| President | Leonid Kuchma |
| Preceded by | Volodymyr Khandohiy |
| Succeeded by | Mykola Maimeskul |
| Personal details | |
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12 October 1934 Kiev, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Political party | Party of Greens of Ukraine |
| Alma mater | Kiev Medical Institute |
Yuriy M. Scherbak (Shcherbak) (October 12, 1934, Kyiv) – Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, publicist, epidemiologist, politician, diplomat, and environmental activist. Doctor of Medicine (1983), Laureate of Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984) and O. Dovzhenko State Prize (1984).
He was born in Kyiv in 1934, about the time when his father was arrested by NKVD, predecessor of KGB. During World War II the family was evacuated to Russia. He returned to his native city in the beginning of March 1944. His older brother, Mykola Scherbak (1927–1998), famous scientist-zoologist, was head of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and in his student's years was accused (1948) and condemned by KGB (1948–1954) for nationalism.
Yuriy Scherbak graduated from Kyiv Medical Institute in 1958. During 1958–1987 he worked in the Kyiv L. Gromashevsky Research Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases as Junior and then Senior Researcher. His PhD (1965) and MD (1983) theses devoted to the epidemiology of especially dangerous infectious diseases. He took part in the fight against epidemics of cholera and other diseases in Ukraine and Uzbekistan, for which he was awarded the Order of Red Banner of Labour (1971).
Yuriy Scherbak is the author of about 100 scientific papers and more than 20 books. His career in literature began in the mid-1950s at the literary association of his medical school. His first stories were published in the magazine "Yunost" and illustrated by his own illustrations. The first story "Like at the war" (1966) tells of doctor's everyday life. He has been a Member of the Writer's Union of Ukraine since 1966 (Secretary of the Board in 1987–1991), and a Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine since 1971. His debut as a playwright was with the play "Discovery" at the Kharkiv Pushkin academic theatre in 1975. He has an excellent command of Polish, and translated Polish poetry and writers, often lecturing to students at Warsaw University.
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