Ihor Nasalyk

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Stepanovych and the family name is Nasalyk.

Ihor Stepanovych Nasalyk (Ukrainian: Ігор Степанович Насалик; born 25 November 1962) is a Ukrainian optoelectronic engineer and politician. Nasalyk served as Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine from 2016 until 2019.

Ihor Nasalyk
Ігор Насалик
Official portrait, c. 2017
Ministry of Energy and Coal Mining of Ukraine
In office 14 April 2016[1] – 29 August 2019
Prime Minister	Volodymyr Groysman
Preceded by	Volodymyr Demchyshyn
Succeeded by	Oleksiy Orzhel
People's Deputy of Ukraine
3rd convocation
In office 12 May 1998[2] – 14 May 2002[2]
Constituency	Independent, No.85 electoral district
4th convocation
In office 14 May 2002[3] – 25 May 2006[3]
Constituency	Ukrainian People's Party, No.86 electoral district
8th convocation
In office 27 November 2014[4] – 14 April 2016[4]
Constituency	Independent, No.85 electoral district
Personal details
Born	(1962-11-25) November 25, 1962 (age 62) Oleksandriia, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Ukrainian
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	Ukrainian Party Ukrainian People's Party
Alma mater	Lviv University (1989)
Occupation	optoelectronic engineer statesman

Early life

Nasalyk was born on 25 November 1962 in Oleksandriia, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR.^[5] From 1980 to 1985 he studied at the University of Lviv.^[6] He then went into Soviet Army after conscription until 1987.^[6] In 1987, after graduating, he briefly worked as a driver at the Rohatyn Motor Transport Enterprise. He then went back into education, receiving his higher education in 1989 at Lviv University in the Faculty of Physics.^[7] He was then a leading specialist at the Center for Microelectronics at Ulyanovsk from 1990 until 1992.^[8] For a year he then worked as an advisor and director on economic issues of the enterprise "Korona" in Lviv.^[5] Then, in 1993, he became economic advisor to a company in Rohatyn.^[5] In 1995–1998, he was president of the production corporation "Tekhno-Center" (Tekhnoinvestcenter) in Rohatyn.^[5]

Political career

He was a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada from 1998 to 2019.^[9] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Nasalyk lost reelection as an independent candidate in single-seat constituency 85 (Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast).^[10] He was the former mayor of Kalush from 2006 to 2014 also.^[11]

Legal affairs

In November 2020, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine canceled the closure of a case in which Nasalyk was suspected of false declarations in statements worth $1.2 million.^[12] In February 2023, it was declared that there was suspicion of abuse of office, which would result in six years in prison, where he concluded agreements with businessman that were known to unprofitable to Ukraine and that he wrote off funds to merchants for state property.^[13]