Wadym Hetman
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| Cyrillic ( Ukrainian ) | |
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| Вадим Петрович Гетьман | |
| Transl. : | Vadym Petrovyč Het'man |
| Transcr. : | Wadym Petrowytsch Hetman |
Wadym Petrowytsch Hetman (born July 12, 1935 in Orschyzja , Poltava Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , † April 22, 1998 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian economist and politician. From March 1992 to the end of 1993 he was President of the National Bank of Ukraine . Hetman was assassinated in April 1998.
Hetman studied economics at the Kiev School of Economics . From 1975 to 1987 he was deputy chairman of the State Prize Committee of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic . In 1987 he moved to the Ukrainian headquarters of the Agroprombank of the Soviet Union; from 1990 this bank was restructured into a commercially organized stock corporation. From this time Hetman knew Viktor Yushchenko , the future President of Ukraine .
After Ukraine gained state independence, Hetman played a key role in building the country's national bank. In March 1992 he became President of the National Bank, but he resigned from this post at the end of 1993, among other things because he had spoken out against a hasty exit by Ukraine from the ruble zone. His successor as the National Bank President was Yushchenko. The first hryvnia banknotes issued by the National Bank in 1996 bore Hetman's signature.
Hetman had been a member of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada , since 1990 . In April 1998 he was shot dead by an unknown perpetrator in the elevator of his home. In 2002, the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine charged the former Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko with the commission for the murder. A man sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder has repeatedly stated that he had been forced to confess. To this day, the background to the crime remains unclear.
In honor of Hetman, the Kiev School of Economics was renamed the Kiev National Wadym Hetman Economic University . In 2005 he was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine .
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| SURNAME | Hetman, Wadym |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Вадим Петрович Гетьман (Ukrainian); Hetman, Wadym Petrowytsch (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian economist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Snityn , Poltava Oblast , Ukrainian SSR |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1998 |
| Place of death | Kiev , Ukraine |