Oleksandr Kusmuk

Oleksandr Kusmuk (2001)

Oleksandr Ivanovich Kusmuk (born April 17, 1954 in Djatyliwka , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Ukrainian officer and politician. He was Defense Minister and Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Life

Oleksandr Kusmuk was born in the village of Dyatylivka ( Дятилівка ) ( Slavuta Raion ) in the north of the Ukrainian Khmelnitsky Oblast . Between 1975 and 1993 he served as a soldier in the Red Army, among others in the group of the Soviet armed forces in Germany and in the Soviet military districts of Belarus, Moscow, Leningrad, Carpathian Mountains and Odessa. In December 1993 he became the commander of the 32nd Army Corps and military chief of the Crimea .

He was then commander of the National Guard of Ukraine from October 1995 to July 1996 and then moved to the post of Ukrainian Defense Minister. He held this office from July 11, 1996 to October 24, 2001 (see Sibir flight 1812 ) and again from September 24, 2004 to February 3, 2005. During his time as Minister of Defense, he was also a member of the National Security and Defense Council . From May 25, 2007 to December 18, 2007, Kuzmuk was Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine in Yanukovych's second cabinet . After the parliamentary elections in 2012 , he became a member of the Party of Regions, a member of the Verkhovna Rada, and remained so until the 2014 parliamentary election .

In August 1995 Kusmuk was promoted to lieutenant general and since December 1996 he has had the military rank of army general .

Kusmuk received numerous honors and medals. Including:

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↑ ^a ^b biography of Oleksandr Kusmuk on "Official Ukraine Today"; last accessed on February 24, 2016 (Ukrainian)

personal data
SURNAME	Kusmuk, Oleksandr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kusmuk, Oleksandr Ivanovych (full name); Кузьмук, Олександр Іванович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ukrainian officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH	Djatyliwka , Ukrainian SSR