Ivan Kyrylenko

Ivan Hryhorovych Kyrylenko (Ukrainian: Іван Григорович Кириленко; born 2 October 1956)^[2] is a Ukrainian politician and from 2007 till December 2011 faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.^[3][4][5]

Ivan Kyrylenko
Іван Кириленко
Kyrylenko in 2016
Minister for Agriculture of Ukraine
In office 10 January 2000 – 26 November 2002[1]
Preceded by	Mykhailo Hladiy
Succeeded by	Serhiy Ryzhuk
Vice-Prime Minister of Agro-Industrial Complex
In office 26 November 2002 – 3 February 2005
Personal details
Born	(1956-10-02) 2 October 1956 (age 68) Berdyansk Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast (Ukrainian SSR)
Political party	All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland"

Education

In 1978 he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Agricultural Institute, specializing in agricultural sciences. In 1991, Kyrylenko was a graduate of the Academy of Social Sciences in Moscow, the specialty analyst.

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History. He defended his thesis entitled "Social development of village: Experience, Problems, Prospects (for example Prydniprovia USSR)" in 1991 at the Academy of Social Sciences (Moscow), and in 1997 ibid - doctoral thesis "The formation and development of the agricultural economy in the form of a market transformation."

Labor and political activity

Before becoming a politician Kyrylenko worked as head of a collective farm (kolkhoz) and as a civil servant in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.^[2]

He was first elected into Parliament on an independent candidate on in December 1995 he then joined the faction Unity.^[2] At the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election Kyrylenko was elected into Parliament on a Hromada ticket.^[2][6] When Yulia Tymoshenko set up the breakaway All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" faction Kyrylenko joined her.^[2]

Kyrylenko left Parliament 2001^[7] to become Minister of Agriculture (in the Kinakh Government) and one of the founding members of (the now defunct electoral bloc) For United Ukraine in 2001.^[8] At the time of the next elections he was a member of the Agrarian Party (a part of For United Ukraine).^[2] Kyrylenko was Deputy Prime Minister in the First Yanukovych Government (2002-January 2005) cabinet of Viktor Yanukovych.^{[9][10][11][12]}

In 2006 and 2007 he was elected into Parliament on an All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" ticket.^[13] According to Yulia Tymoshenko, Kyrylenko is her “godfather in politics”.^[14] After the 2007 election he was elected faction leader of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the Ukrainian Parliament.^[3] The faction re-elected as its faction leader Andriy Kozhemiakin.^[4][5]

Kyrylenko was placed at number 15 on the electoral list of Batkivshchyna during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election; he was re-elected into parliament.^[15][16] He served on the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada on issues of European integration.

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election he was again re-elected into parliament; this time after placing 14th on the electoral list of Batkivshchyna.^[17][18] Candidate for people's deputies from Batkivshchyna in the 2019 parliamentary elections, No. 6 on the list.^[19]

Scientific activity

Published more than 100 scientific works, including some 10 books, including five in collaboration and 2 monographs.^[20]

Trained Doctors 2 and 3 candidates.

Elected in 2002, a corresponding member of Academy of Agrarian Sciences Research Office of Transfer of innovation.

Personal life

The politician is married and his wife Zinaida name. Together they have a daughter.

Awards

• Order of the Badge of Honour (1986)
• Honored Worker of Agriculture of Ukraine (1993)
• Order of Merit II class (2004).