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Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk |
| Born |
January 10, 1934, Velykyi Zhitin village, Rivne region. |
| Marital status |
Married. His wife Antonina Mykhailivna is an assistant professor at Economics Department of Taras Schevchenko National University. He has son Oleksandr. |
| Education |
Higher. In 1958, he was graduated from Taras Schevchenko Kyiv State University, economist, professor of political economy. PhD in Economics. Professor at many national and foreign universities. |
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Work experience and socio-political activity
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| 1958–1960 |
Professor at Chernivtsy financial college. |
| 1960–1967 |
Educational supervisor at Political Education Office, lecturer, assistant secretary, head of agitation and propaganda division of Chernivtsy Unit of the Communist Party of Ukraine. |
| 1967–1970 |
Assistant professor at the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| 1970–1988 |
Head of the sector, inspector, assistant secretary of the Central Committee, deputy head of the division, head of the division of agitation and propaganda of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. |
| 1988–1990 |
Head of ideological division, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. |
| 1989–1990 |
Candidate member of the Politburo. |
| 1990–1991 |
Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, head of Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR, of Ukraine. MP of Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR of 10th- 11th convocations, MP of Ukraine of 12th (1st) convocation. He withdrew to occupy the post of President of Ukraine. |
| August 1990 |
He announced his withdrawal from the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| December 1991 - July 1994 |
President of Ukraine. |
| 1994–1998 |
MP of Ukraine of 2nd convocation. Member of faction ‘Social Market Choice’, later ‘Constitutional Center’. |
| 1998–2002 |
MP of Ukraine of 3rd convocation under the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine lists. Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs with CIS of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. |
| Since 2000 |
President of the Ukrainian Municipal Club. |
| Since 2001 |
President of the All-Ukrainian Charity Organization ‘Mission: Famous Ukraine’. |
| Since 2002 |
MP of Ukraine of 4th convocation under the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine lists, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Head of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine faction in Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. |
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Awards
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Silver order ‘For allegiance to homeland’. |
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Order of the International Staff academy ‘For development of science and education’. |
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Order of the October Revolution. |
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Two orders of Labor Red Flag. |
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Two merit certificates of the Presidium of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. |
| 1999 |
Order of Yaroslav the Wise of 4th level. |
| 2001 |
‘Person of the Year’ in nomination ‘MP of the Year’. |
| 2001 |
Hero of Ukraine (State order awarded). |
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Monographs and publications
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| 2001 |
Book ‘State and power: lessons learned from the administrative reform’. |
| 2002 |
Book ‘We have what we have’. |
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Author of more than 500 articles in Ukrainian and foreign media on home and foreign politics of Ukraine. |
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