Vasyl Sviato
Vasily Sviato | |
|---|---|
Sviato in 1994 | |
| Member of the Verkhovna Rada | |
| In office 11 April 1994 – 12 April 1998 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Vasily Petrovich Sviato 7 May 1948 Chemerivtsi Raion, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR |
| Died | 18 September 2025 (aged 77) |
| Party | Independent |
Vasily Petrovich Sviato (Ukrainian: Василь Петрович Свято; 7 May 1948 – 18 September 2025) was a Ukrainian politician.[1] An independent, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 1994 to 1998.[2]
Early life
Sviato was born on 7 May 1948 in the village of Kormilcha, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[1] In 1971, he graduated from the University of Kyiv with a specialty as a physicist-nuclear scientist.[1] After graduation, he started working at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.[1] He eventually also started working for the Department of Atomic Energy Problems.[1] In 1985, he received his PhD on the topic of nuclear excitation processes arising from positron-electron annihilation in atoms and the beta decay of odd tin isotopes.[1]
Political career
In the 1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election, he was elected in the second round to the Verkhovna Rada for electoral district no. 416, which is within Khmelnytskyi Oblast as a self-nominated candidate.[1] During his time as an MP, he was Deputy Chair of the Committee on Nuclear Policy and Nuclear Safety and was a member of the faction for independents.[1] He attempted to run for re-election in the 1998 elections for district no. 191, but lost.[1] Following this, he became a Perennial candidate to the Verkhovna Rada until 2012, running mostly as a self-nominated candidate besides one endorsement from the "Green Planet" party in 2006.[3]
Personal life and death
He was married and had one son born in 1973 and a daughter born in 1983.[1]
Sviato died on 18 September 2025, at the age of 77.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Свято Василь Петрович, к.фіз-мат.н.; кол. нар. деп. України". Dovidka (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 September 2025.
- ^ "Свято Василь Петрович". народний депутат України (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2025 – via Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Свято Василь Петрович — Біографія, Балотування, Фракції, Політична Агітація | ПолітХаб". www.chesno.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 15 February 2026.
- ^ "Vasyl Petrovich Sviato". Forever Missed. Retrieved 20 September 2025.