Ivan Bondarchuk

Ivan Mykolayovych Bondarchuk (Ukrainian: Іва́н Микола́йович Бондарчу́к; 3 April 1944 – 15 September 2023) was a Ukrainian teacher and politician. A member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2006 to 2007.^[1]

Bondarchuk was born on 3 April 1944 within the village of Starosillia, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.^[2]

After graduating from secondary school in 1960, he worked as a handyman and electric welder at the businesses "Hvozd" within Myroliubiv.^[2] He then started his studies at the Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University, where he graduated from in 1969 in the Faculty of International Languages.^[2] During the time, he also taught English at the institute.^[2] Afterwards, he was the 2nd then 1st Secretary of the Vinnytsia City Committee representing the Communist Party of Ukraine.^[2] He also attended the Higher Party School of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1976.^[2]

Afterwards, he worked within the Zamostyanskyi district in Vinnytsia and returned to the Vinnytsia City Committee until the collapse of the Soviet Union.^[2] After the USSR's collapse, he became Director of the Zamostyanskyi Employment Center until 1994 when he became Deputy Chairman then Chairman of the Vinnytsia Oblast Council.^[2] In 1998 he became Chairman of the Board of the agricultural JSC "Vinnytsiamiaso", a position he held until his death, and was an assistant-consultant to the People's Deputy of Ukraine, Mykola Melnyk (also of the SPU).^[2]

In 2005 he became Deputy Head to the Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast, a position he held until 2006 when he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada during the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election.^[2] He served in the rada for a year until 2007.

Bondarchuk died in Vinnytsia on 15 September 2023, at the age of 79.^[3]