Yuri Jechanurov

Jurij Ivanovych Jechanurow (2013)

Jurij Iwanowytsch Yekhanurov ( Ukrainian Юрій Іванович Єхануров ., Scientific transliteration Jurij Ivanovyč Jechanurov * 23. August 1948 in Belkatschi, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian politician Buryat - Polish descent and was the provisional of 8 September 2005, and from September 22, 2005 to January 10, 2006 incumbent Prime Minister of Ukraine. From December 2007 to June 2009 he was Minister of Defense of Ukraine.

Career

Jechanurow was born in a village in the Yakut ASSR (now the Republic of Sakha , Russia ) as the son of a Buryat and a Polish woman. After graduating from an eight-year school in Buryatia from 1963 to 1967, he initially trained at the Kiev construction technology center; since then he has lived in Ukraine. Studying at the Kiev Institute for Economics was followed by an apprenticeship at the Hosplan economic research institute . He is a candidate in economics and has been a professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev since 2002 .

After completing his studies, Jechanurow primarily gained experience in the construction industry : in 1967 he started as a master craftsman in a reinforced concrete factory within the Kyivmiskbud Trust No. 4 ; his career there ended only as director of the factory. From 1977 to 1978 he was deputy head of the production area of ​​the Buddy Valley building trust , and in the same year he moved to Kyjiwmiskbudkomplekt as a director . After another interlude from 1985–1988 as director of Buddetal , he was then again deputy director at the municipal construction company Holowkyjiwmiskbudu , where he was responsible for economic issues.

After the independence of Ukraine Jechanurow held various political leadership positions, where he was mainly responsible for economic issues. From 1991 to 1998 he was a member of the State Economic Council of Ukraine, a member of the College of the State Rada and Deputy Chairman of the Kiev City Council.

Jurij Jechanurow was instrumental in coordinating the privatizations in the 1990s and in establishing the State Property Fund ; the basis of the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in Ukraine will u. a. attributed to his leadership.

In 1998 the politician for the constituency of Zhytomyr was elected to the Verkhovna Rada , and from 1999 to 2001 he was the first deputy prime minister in the Yushchenko government , primarily responsible for economic issues.

After the end of the Yushchenko government, Jechanov worked as vice chairman of the Kuchma presidential administration ; Since November 2001 this made him the authorized representative for administrative reform issues in Ukraine.

Since the victory of the Nascha Ukraijina bloc in the parliamentary elections in 2002 , he was again a member of parliament as a candidate on the list (No. 26) and, among other things, headed the Commission for Industrial and Enterprise Policy.

On April 1, 2005, President Yushchenko appointed the politician governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast .

After the dismissal of the Tymoshenko government, Jechanurow took over the post of Prime Minister of Ukraine on September 8, 2005. In a vote in parliament two weeks later, however, he missed the necessary majority by three votes. In a new vote on September 22nd, he was confirmed in office with 289 of 450 votes. On January 10, 2006, Parliament pronounced suspicion on him. Until the 2006 elections he stayed in office on a provisional basis.

On December 11, 2007, President Yushchenko proposed him to parliament as Minister of Defense in the second Tymoshenko government , and on December 18, 2007, Yekhanurov was elected to this post by the Verkhovna Rada. At the instigation of then Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , he was removed from office on June 5, 2009 by the Ukrainian parliament. From July 2009 to February 2010 he was the Deputy Head of Presidential Administration of Ukraine . Jechanurow is the head of Nascha Ukraijina's Kiev regional organization .

Jechanurow is married to the civil engineer Olena Lwiwna and has a son (* 1975).

Awards

• Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union , 1977
• Presidium document of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR
• Certificate of Honor from the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine , 2001
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (Class V), 2006
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (IV class), 2009

Web links

Commons : Jurij Jechanurow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at lenta.ru (Russian)
• Jechanurow's personal website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Verkhovna Rada dismisses defense minister" Ukraine News, June 5, 2009
2. ↑ "Our Ukraine is exchanging leadership" Ukraine-Nachrichten, September 28, 2010