Volodymyr Ivaonovcyh Zheliba (Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Желіба; 24 February 1934 - 21 October 2013), was a Ukrainian politician, and diplomat who served as the first ambassador to Belarus from 1992 to 1998.
He has a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 1990 to 1992.
He had also been a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR of the 10th and 11th convocations. He was a candidate for membership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1981 to 1986, and was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine from 1986 to 1991.
Volodymyr Zheliba was born on 24 February 1934.[1] In 1952, he entered the Uman Agricultural Institute.[citation needed] He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956.[citation needed] In June 1957, he graduated from the institute, he has been an agronomist and entomologist of the Trostyanetska MTS of the Zalozhtsiv district of the Ternopil Oblast.[citation needed]
In June 1958, he was promoted as the chief agronomist, head of the district agricultural inspection in Zalozhtsivsky district.[citation needed] In April 1961, he was the chief state procurement inspector in the Zalozhtsiv district of the Ternopil region.[citation needed] From April 1962, he was the 2nd secretary of the Zalozhtsi District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine; Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Collective Farm and State Farm Administration.[citation needed]
In May 1963, he has been an instructor, consultant of the department of organizational and party work, inspector of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.[citation needed] From November 1971 to April 1973, he was the 1st Deputy Chairman of the executive committee of the Ternopil Regional Council of Workers' Deputies.[citation needed] From April 1973 to September 1978, he was the secretary of the Chernihiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.[citation needed]
From September 1978 to 1980, he studied at the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU.[citation needed] In March 1980, he has been the chairman of the executive committee of the Kirovohrad Regional Council of People's Deputies.[citation needed] On 4 March 1990, Zheliba was elected a member of parliament, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 1st convocation to the Verkhovna Rada.[2] At the same time on 6 Apri, he has been the chairman of the Kirovohrad Regional Council of People's Deputies.[citation needed]
From February 1991 to February 1992, he was the chairman of the Kirovohrad Oblast Council and chairman of the Kirovohrad Regional Executive Committee.[citation needed] In February 1992, he has been a member of the commission of the Verkhovna Rada on local self-government development.[citation needed] On 4 March 1992, Zheliba was appointed ambassador to Belarus.[3] On 3 January 1998, he was replaced by his successor Anatoliy Dron.[4] In April 1998, he has been an adviser to the Minister of Emergency Situations and Protection of the Population from the Effects of the Chernobyl Disaster.[citation needed]
