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- Starting in 1969, he worked in heavy industry in and around his hometown of Yenakiyeve, rising from mechanic to executive over a 20-year career. During that time he attended Donetsk Polytechnic Institute (now Donetsk State Technical University), earning a degree in mechanical engineering (1980); he also joined the Communist Party.
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May 17, 2024 · During that time he attended Donetsk Polytechnic Institute (now Donetsk State Technical University), earning a degree in mechanical engineering (1980); he also joined the Communist Party. Following Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, Yanukovych became involved in local government.
Viktor Yanukovych was born in the village of Zhukovka near Yenakiieve in Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. Of his childhood he has written: "My childhood was difficult and hungry. I grew up without my mother, who died when I was two. I went around bare-footed on the streets. I had to fight for myself every day.
A graduate (1973) of the mining tekhnikum in Yenakiieve, Yanukovych has a master’s degree in international law as well as a doctorate in economics (1999; from the Donetsk-based Institute of Economic and Legal Research of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine).
Feb 28, 2014 · Beginning his career as a transport executive in the Soviet Union's key coal-mining industry in eastern Ukraine, he became a Doctor of Economics - the equivalent of a PhD - in 2000.
Mar 10, 2011 · Viktor Yanukovych took office in February 2010 against a backdrop of low public expectations—the country was in relatively weak economic shape, fraught with internal political rivalries and divisions, and facing a decidedly clear sense of “Ukraine fatigue” in the West. When elected, Yanukovych declared that Ukraine’s status as one of ...
Mar 24, 2014 · Born on July 9, 1950 to a working class family in the Donetsk coal-mining region, Yanukovich is a native Russian speaker and a mechanical engineer by training. He had a turbulent youth, including...
Jan 4, 2015 · An article last Sunday about fast-paced events last February that led to the abrupt downfall of Ukraine’s president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, misspelled the surname of an ally of the president who ...
