Roman Zabzaliuk
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Roman Zabzaliuk | |
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Роман Забзалюк | |
 Official portrait, 2012 | |
| Member of the Verkhovna Rada | |
| In office 23 November 2007 – 27 November 2014 | |
| In office 25 May 2006 – 12 June 2007 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 July 1960 |
| Died | 9 October 2018 (aged 61) |
| Party | Batkivshchyna |
Roman Omelianovych Zabzaliuk (Ukrainian: Роман Омелянович Забзалюк; 18 July 1960 – 9 October 2018) was a Ukrainian politician who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2006 to 2014.[1]
Zabzaliuk was born on 18 July 1960 in the city of Lviv, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[2] After graduating from the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Ground Forces Academy in 1981, he entered the Soviet Armed Forces, and during this time he served in the Afghan War, for which he was awarded a Order of the Red Star, and was a Master of Sports in rifle shooting.[2] After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces and continued serving until 1994, and by the time he was left was a reserve lieutenant colonel.[2]
In 1995, after retiring from the army, he founded the "Southern Bug Cossack Palanka" organization in Mykolaiv, and then in 1999 because head of the Mykolaiv regional Batkivshchyna party.[2]