Vitalii Drobinskyi

Drobinskyi was born in Kyiv Oblast on 26 January 1936.^[1] After graduating from the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy with a qualification as an electrical engineer, he became a member of the CPSU in 1968, a party he would stay in until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.^[1] He then became the General Director of the production company "Megommeter", which was located in Uman.^[2] Ahead of the 1990 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the labor collective (the body of employees) of the Megommeter enterprise nominated him as a candidate to be a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine, for the Uman city constituency No. 420 of the Cherkasy region.^[3]

He won the election on 18 March 1990, garnering 52.76% of the vote in the second round of voting. During his time in parliament, he served on the committees for planning, budget, finances, and prices.^[3] After the end of his term in 1994, he did not run for reelection in the 1994 Ukrainian parliamentary election.^[4] After his four-year term, he returned to business, working in the instrument-making industry for which he received in 2008 the honorary title of citizen of Uman.^[4]

Drobinskyi died on 19 November 2025, at the age of 89.^[2] He was married and had two children.^[4]