Ivan Plachkov
Ukrainian politician
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Ivan Vasylyovych Plachkov (Ukrainian: Іван Васильович Плачков; born 23 November 1957) is a Ukrainian politician of Bulgarian descent. Plachkov was Ukraine's Minister of Energy in 1999 and again Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine between 2005 and 2006.[1]
Ivan Plachkov | |
|---|---|
| 5th Governor of Odesa Oblast | |
| In office 2006–2007 | |
| President | Viktor Yushchenko |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Borys Zvyahintsev (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Mykola Serdyuk |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 November 1957 |
Early life
Plachkov was born on 23 November 1957 in the village of Krynychne, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[2] He was ethnically a Bessarabian Bulgarian.[2] After graduating from secondary school, he worked as a handyman for the PMK-99 of the Dunayvodbud trust in Izmail and as a school laboratory assistant.[2] In 1980, he graduated from the Odesa National Polytechnic University and qualified as a thermal power engineer.[2] Afterwords, he worked his way up until 1994 at the Kyiv CHPP-5 of the Kyivenergo Production Energy Association.[2] He then took on managerial positions at Kyivenergo until 1999. Then, he was appointed Minister of Energy briefly from February to December 1999.[2]
After returning to the private sector, he again became chairman of the board of Kyivenergo until he returned to politics in 2005.[2] In 2005 he became a Candidate of Technical Sciences.[2] He is also the president of Veles LLC, which produces wine in Odesa, and was from 2015 to 2017 Honorary President of the Association of Gas Producers.[2]
Political activity
From 2005 to 2006 he again served as Minister of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine.[2] He was then appointed Governor of Odesa Oblast from 2006 to 2007, before becoming advisor to the President Viktor Yushchenko and Deputy Head of the State Administration of Affairs until 2010.[2]
In 2021, Plachkov made an analysis of Ukraine's energy sector and called for a review of the electricity market. He said the sector was poorly regulated and heavily reliant on cheap electricity from Russia and Belarus.[3][4]