Serhiy Ryzhuk
Serhiy Ryzhuk | |
|---|---|
Сергій Рижук | |
| Governor of Zhytomyr Oblast | |
| In office 11 January 2004 – 3 February 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Mykola Rudchenko |
| Succeeded by | Pavlo Zhebrivskyi |
| In office 18 March 2010 – 2 March 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Yuriy Zabela |
| Succeeded by | Sydir Kizin |
| Ministry of Agrarian Policy | |
| In office 2002 – 11 January 2004 | |
| Preceded by | Ivan Kyrylenko |
| Succeeded by | Viktor Slauta |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 January 1950 |
| Party | Party of Regions |
| Alma mater | Zhytomyr National Agro-Ecological University NAASU Institute of Land Cultivation |
Serhiy Mykolaiovych Ryzhuk (Ukrainian: Сергій Миколайович Рижук; born 20 January 1950)[1] is a Ukrainian politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada.
Early life
Ryzhuk was born on 20 January 1950 in Chudniv, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[2] In 1975, he graduated from the Zhytomyr National Agro-Ecological University with a specialty as an economist-organizer.[2] Afterwords, he began his career as an economist of the collective farm of Ostrovsky withhin Chudniv. However, he soon switched his career to work in politics after this position.[2]
Political career
He first worked as an instructor of the Zhytomyr Regional Committee from 1976 to 1979, and was then promoted to being a second then first secretary of the same committee up until 1983.[2] He was then transferred to being first secretary of the northern Yemilchyne Raion within Zhytomyr Oblast, before returning to being an inspector of the central committee.[2] Up until the collapse of the Soviet Union, he worked as the First Deputy Head of the Agricultural Department of the Central Committee.[2]
Following its collapse, he worked within the newly formed Ministry of Agrarian Policy as its deputy head until 1992.[2] He then became director of the state cooperative association "Ukragroform" until 1996, before becoming briefly an assistant to President Leonid Kuchma.[2] He returned to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy to become Deputy Minister of the Agro-Industrial Complex and then State Secretary of the ministry up until 2002.[2] In 2002, he was promoted to Minister of Agrarian Policy in the cabinet of Viktor Yanukovych, which he did until 2004.[2]
In 2004-2005 he also served as a Governor of Zhytomyr Oblast.[1]
In 2006-2010 Ryzhuk was a member of the Verkhovna Rada representing Party of Regions.
In 2010-2014 he again served as a Governor of Zhytomyr Oblast.[1]
References
External links
- Profile at the Official Ukraine Today portal