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Viktor Pynzenyk

Viktor Pynzenyk
Віктор Пинзеник
Pynzenyk in 2013
Minister of Finance of Ukraine
In office
18 December 2007 – 17 February 2009
Preceded byMykola Azarov
Succeeded byIhor Umansky (Acting)
In office
4 February 2005 – 28 September 2005
28 September 2005 – August 2006
Preceded byMykola Azarov
Succeeded byMykola Azarov
First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
31 October 1994 – 5 September 1995
Preceded byYevhen Marchuk
Succeeded byPavlo Lazarenko
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
3 August 1995 – 21 September 1996
21 September 1996 – 7 April 1997
Personal details
Born (1954-04-15) 15 April 1954 (age 70)
Smolohovytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union[1]
Political partyIndependent (since 2010, before 2002)[2]
Other political
affiliations
Reforms and Order Party (1997–2010)[3]
SpouseMaria Romanivna (1969)[3]
ChildrenOlga (1981), Yulia (1989), and Volodymyr (1993)[3]
OccupationPolitician, economist and professor

Viktor Mykhailovych Pynzenyk (Ukrainian: Віктор Михайлович Пинзеник; born 15 April 1954) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and former Minister of Finance. He is the former leader of the Reforms and Order Party.[2][3]

Pynzenyk has been credited with economic reform in post-Soviet Ukraine, helping to transform the country into a market economy and introducing Ukraine's new currency, the hryvnia in September 1996, with the help of Viktor Yushchenko, at the time Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.[4]

  1. ^ "76th place Pinzenik Viktor". Korrespondent (in Russian). Retrieved 19 December 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Pynzenyk: Coming out of the PRP, I broke the site, which was uncomfortable for me". Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2 April 2010.
  3. ^ a b c d "Pynzenyk Viktor Mykhailovych". dovidka.com.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 20 December 2007.
  4. ^ Zawadzki, Sabina (18 December 2007). "FACTBOX: Five facts about new Ukraine finmin Pynzenyk". Reuters. Retrieved 19 December 2007.

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