Vasyl Stolyar
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Vasyl Stolyar Василь Столяр | |
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| Born | April 11, 1962 |
| Occupations | Chairman, FC Volyn Lutsk |
| Children | 3 |
Vasyl Stolyar (Ukrainian: Василь Столяр) (born April 11, 1962[1]) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician. he served as a member of the Volyn Oblast council from 2006 to 2020. He was also previously chairman of FC Volyn Lutsk from 2003 to 2013, when he was replaced by Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi.[2]
Stolyar was born on 11 April 1962 in the city of Lutsk, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[3] After attending Secondary School No. 5 in Lutsk, he completed his compulsory military service in the Soviet Armed Forces in 1982.[3] Afterwords, he studied at Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after M. Tugan-Baranovsky within the Faculty of Technology, graduating in 1988.[3] He later graduated from Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University within the Faculty of Law.[3]
Business activities and FC Volyn Lutsk
In March 2000, Vasyl Stolyar founded the Junior Football School "Femida-Inter" (Lutsk), presently Junior Football School "Volyn". Since January 2001 – FC Volyn Lutsk vice-president. Holds the position of FC Volyn Lutsk president since 2003.[1][4][5]
As of 2025, Stolyar remains the co-owner of more than 10 companies, including plastic manufacturing firm SK-Budplast and berry cultivation company Flora-Pivnich.[6] He was also formerly director of the municipal enterprise "Volynpryrodresurs" from 2017 to 2020.[3]
Political activities
Stolyar is a member of the Volyn Oblast council (the parliament of Volyn Oblast) since 2006; during the 2006 Ukrainian local elections he was elected on the list of Our Ukraine and during the 2010 Ukrainian local elections he was elected for Front of Changes.[1] As a member of Front of Changes.[4] On 15 June 2013 his Front for Change (party) merged into "Fatherland".[7] He was re-elected again in 2015 from Batkivshchyna, but was not re-elected during the 2020 elections when he ran as a Servant of the People candidate.[8]