Leonid Novokhatko
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Leonid Novokhatko | |
|---|---|
Леонід Новохатько | |
 Novokhatko in 2014 | |
| 13th Minister of Culture of Ukraine | |
| In office 5 February 2013[1] – 24 February 2014[2] | |
| Prime Minister | Mykola Azarov |
| Preceded by | Mykhailo Kulynyak |
| Succeeded by | Yevhen Nyshchuk |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 January 1954 |
Leonid Mykolayovych Novokhatko (Ukrainian: Новохатько Леонід Михайлович; born 11 January 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the Minister of Culture of Ukraine from 2013 to 2014. He was a member of the Party of Regions.[3]
Novokhatko was born on 11 January 1954 in Vechirky, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[4] In 1975, he graduated from the Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University.[4] Afterwards, he worked as a history teacher at a village school and then later as a lecturer at the pedagogical institute, before attending Kyiv University from 1979 to 1987 as a postgraduate student for his doctoral studies.[4] During this time, he was an assistant and associate professor.[4]
Later, in 1999, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the socio-economic situation in Ukraine from the 1920s to mid 1930s.[4] He briefly worked as First Deputy Director General of Ukrinform from 2007 to 2010, and since 2016 has been Head of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations within the Institute of Journalism of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University.[4]
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