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Leonid Danylovych Kuchma |
| Born |
August 9, 1938, the village of Chaikino, Chernihiv region. His father Danylo Prokopovych Kuchma, died on the front in 1944. His mother Paraska Trokhymivna Kuchma, kolkhoz worker. |
| Marital status |
Married. His wife Lyudmila Mykolaivna is an honorary president of the National Foundation of Social Protection of Mothers and Children ‘Ukraine for Children’. His daughter Olena is an economist. He has grandson Roman and granddaughter Kateryna. |
| Education |
Higher. In 1960, he was graduated from Dnipropetrovsk State University, physics technical faculty, mechanical engineering in rocket industry. Professor, PhD in Engineering, author of inventions and scientific works, honorary professor at foreign higher education establishments, current member of several Academies of Science. |
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Work experience and socio-political activity
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| 1960–1982 |
Engineer, senior engineer, project engineer, assistant to general engineer, technical head of testing space rocket units at Baykonur space center.
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| 1975–1981 |
Secretary of the party committee of Pivdenne Design Bureau. |
| 1981–1982 |
Secretary of the party committee of Production Association ‘Pivdenne Machine-Building Plant’. |
| 1982–1986 |
First deputy of general engineer of Pivdenne Design Bureau. |
| 1986–1992 |
General director of Production Association ‘Pivdenne Machine-Building Plant’ – one of the largest plants of missile and space rocket units, as well as civil production. |
| 1990–1992 |
MP of Ukraine (12th convocation), member of the Commission on Defense and State Security. |
| 1992–1993 |
Prime Minister of Ukraine, member of the Council of National Security. |
| 1993 – September |
Resigned from the post of Prime minister of Ukraine. |
| 1993–1994 |
President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. |
| March – August 1994 |
MP of Ukraine of 2nd convocation, member of the regional people’s deputy group. |
| 1994–1996 |
Co-chairman of the Constitutional Commission. |
| July 1994 - December 2004 |
President of Ukraine. |
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Awards
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| 1976 |
Order of Labor Red Flag. |
| 1981 |
Laureate of Lenin prize. |
| 1993 |
Laureate of State prize of Ukraine in the sphere of science and engineering. |
| 1999 |
Gold order of Saint Prince Volodymyr, 1st class (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate). |
| 1999 |
Order of Saint Prince Volodymyr the Great, 1st class (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate). |
| 2000 |
Order ‘Gold Bethlehem Cross’. |
| 2003 |
Highest State award of the Republic of Moldova ‘The Order of the Republic’. |
| 2004 |
Diploma and medal of honorary professor of the National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine. |
| 2004 |
Order of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Venerable Illya Muromets, 1st class. |
| 2004 |
Honorary award of the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
| 2004 |
Diploma of Honorary professor, gown and medal of the National University ‘Uzbekistan’ named after Mirza Ulugh Beg (Tashkent). |
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Monographs and publications
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| 2000 |
Book ‘I Believe in the Ukrainian People’ |
| 2001 |
Book ‘About the Most Important’. |
| 2003 |
Book ‘Ukraine is not Russia’. |
| 2004 |
Book ‘On Our Own Way. Thoughts of Economic Reforms in Ukraine’. |
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