Yuriy Derevyanko
Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician
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Yuriy Bohdanovych Derevyanko (Ukrainian: Юрій Богданович Дерев'янко; born 7 May 1973) is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician. People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VIIth and VIIIth convocations. Derevyanko was a member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Corruption Prevention and Counteraction. He is a member of the Council of Volia party.[4]
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Yuriy Derevyanko | |
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Юрій Дерев'янко | |
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| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 12 December 2012[1] – 29 August 2019[2] | |
| Preceded by | Constituency re-established |
| Succeeded by | Zinovii Andriiovych |
| Constituency | Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, No. 87 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 May 1973 |
| Party | Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine Front for Change Volia[3] Movement of New Forces |
| Spouse | Anastasia |
| Children | 3 |
| Kyiv National Economic University | |
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| Website | derevyanko |
From 2010 to 2012 he was a deputy of the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Council. In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Derevyanko was an independent candidate in constituency 87 located in his birthplace Nadvirna, he was elected with 41.53%.[5]
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Derevyanko was again a candidate in constituency 87 for Volia, this time he was reelected to parliament with 69.67%.[5] Derevyanko was a candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2019 election.[6] He was not elected, with 0.10% in the first round of the election.[7][5] Derevyanko did not participate in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[5]
Early life
Derevyanko was born on 7 May 1973 in Nadvirna, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR.[8] His father was an engineer and his mother was a teacher.[9] In 1990 he attempted to enter Kyiv National Economic University after attending Nadvirna Secondary School No. 1, but could not after getting a C− in math during the entrance exam.[9][8] Deciding to put off education, he went to work in a quarry in Pasichna and afterward worked with freights.[9] He then tried again to enter the university, and eventually passed mathematics and so Derevyanko attended Kyiv National Economic University, graduating with a master's degree in accounting and auditing in 1996.[9] During his studies he first worked as a night guard before doing entrepreneurial activities when the Soviet Union collapsed.[9]
