Viktor Pynzenyk

Infobox Minister
name = Viktor Pynzenyk
Віктор Пинзеник
caption = Viktor Pynzenyk speaking at the Reforms and Order Party's XII convention.


office = Minister of Finance of Ukraine
term_start = December 18, 2007
predecessor = Mykola Azarov
term_start2 = February 4, 2005 – September 28, 2005
September 28, 2005
term_end2 = August 2006
predecessor2 = Mykola Azarov
successor2 = Mykola Azarov
office3 = First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine
term_start3 = October 31, 1994
term_end3 = September 5, 1995
predecessor3 = Yevhen Marchuk
successor3 = Pavlo Lazarenko
office4 = Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine
term_start4 = August 3, 1995 – September 21, 1996
September 21, 1996
term_end4 = April 7, 1997
birth_date = birth date and age|1954|04|15
birth_place = Smolohovytsia, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union [cite web|url=http://files.korrespondent.net/projects/top100/2006/990|title=76th place Pinzenik Viktor|work=Korrespondent|accessdate=2007-12-19|language=Russian]
party = Reforms and Order Party as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloccite web|url=http://www.prp.org.ua/index.php?mid=20|title=Pynzenyk Viktor Mykhailovych|work=Reforms and Order Party|accessdate=2007-12-19|language=Ukrainian]
spouse = Maria Romanivna (1969)cite web|url=http://dovidka.com.ua/fcontent.php?parm=h.c5R2mR36wTXkeT9.wZ|title=Pynzenyk Viktor Mykhailovych|work=dovidka.com.ua|accessdate=2007-12-20|language=Ukrainian]
children = Olga (1981), Yulia (1989), and Volodymyr (1993)
residence =
occupation = Politician, economist and professor
religion =


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Viktor Mykhailovych Pynzenyk ( _uk. Віктор Михайлович Пинзеник) (born April 15, 1954 in Smolohovytsia, Zakarpattia Oblast) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and professor.

Viktor Pynzenyk currently serves as the Minister of Finance of Ukraine in the Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's Cabinet, elected on December 18, 2007. He is the leader of the Reforms and Order Party, elected to the Verkhovna Rada ("parliament") as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc.

Pynzenyk has been credited with economic reform in post-Soviet Ukraine, helping transform the country into a market economy and introducing Ukraine's new currency, the hryvnia in September 1996, with the help of Viktor Yushchenko, at the time Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.cite news|last=Zawadzki|first=Sabina|url=http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1847703220071218|title=FACTBOX: Five facts about new Ukraine finmin Pynzenyk|work=Reuters|accessdate=2007-12-19|date=December 18, 2007|language=English]

Early life

Viktor Pynzenyk was born on April 15, 1954 in Smolohovytsia, in the westernmost Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine) to Mykhailo and Mariya Pynzenyk. After completing his secondary education, Pynzenyk studied at the Lviv State University, from which he graduated in 1975 as as an economist. He stayed on in the same university until 1979 for the post-graduate work on his dissertation in Economics which he defended in 1980 receiving the degree of Candidate of Science (roughly Ph. D. equivalent). He continued his scientific work in the Moscow State University where he received his Doktor of Science degree in 1989. A year later, Pynzenyk became a professor of economics at his alma mater—the Lviv University.

Political and economic career

Pynzenyk was sworn in to Ukrainian parliament on January 4, 1992, [Cite Ukrainian law|type=Order of the Verkhovna Rada|number=2030-XII
law=2030-12|name=On the recognition of official duties of the national deputees of Ukraine Pynzenyk V.M. and Zaiyats O.S.|date=1992-01-04] and soon afterwards became a member of the economic reforms working group. Later that year, he became the Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine as well as the Minister of Economy. [Cite Ukrainian law|type=Order of the President of Ukraine|number=520/92
law=520/92|name=On the Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine with a commitment to economic reforms, Minister of Economy of Ukraine|date=1992-10-27] As minister, Pynzenyk introduced the first economic reforms in the newly independent Ukraine, helping transform the country into a market economy.

In March 1992, Pynzenyk was elected to the second convocation of the parliament as part of the "Reforms" faction, serving his mandate until April 1998. As an MP, he participated in the finance and banking work group. From October 31, 1994 until September 5, 1995, he served as the country's First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine, [Cite Ukrainian law|type=Order of the President of Ukraine|number=646/94|law=646/94|name=On V. Pynzenyk attaining the status of First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine|date=1994-10-31] and from August 3, 1995 to April 7, 1997—as the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine.

Viktor was elected to Verkhovna Rada for the third time in the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election serving from March 1998 until the next election in 2002. In 2002, Pynzenyk was elected as part of the "Our Ukraine" electoral bloc. Three years later, after the Orange Revolution, Pynzenyk was chosen as the Minister of Economy [Cite Ukrainian law|type=Order of the President of Ukraine|number=162/2005|law=162/2005|name=On V. Pynzenyk attaining the status of Minister of Finance of Ukraine|date=2005-04-02] on February 4, 2005, and served his post until August 2006. Then on November 3, 2007, he became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the sixth convocation as a member of the Reforms and Order Party, which participated in the elections as part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. He is now a substitute of the bloc's parliamentary leader.

Personal life

Despite his career in politics, Viktor Pynzenyk is remains a professor at the Lviv University. He has been named an honorary professor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and the Economics Institute of Ternopil. Additionally, he has been named an "Honored Economist of Ukraine" (as of 2004). [Cite Ukrainian law|type=Order of the President of Ukraine|number=438/2004|law=438/2004|name=On V. Pynzenyk attaining the fair status of "Deserved Economist of Ukraine"|date=2004-04-15]

Viktor Pynzenyk is married to Mariya Romanivna (b. 1969), and they have two children:sons Volodymyr (b.1993) and Vitaliy (b.2007). He also has two daughters from the previous marriage Olga (b. 1981) and Yulia (b. 1989). Pynzenyk's hobbies include tourism, an interest in music, as well as playing the preferans game. His income declaration for 2006 constituted 265,200 hryvnias ($53,000).cite news|url=http://www.ukranews.com/eng/article/89122.html|title=Pynzenyk Declares UAH 265,200 Income For 2006|work=Ukrainian News|date=December 18, 2007|accessdate=2007-12-20|language=English] He drives a Toyota RAV4 and a Toyota 4Runner.

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NAME = Pynzenyk, Viktor
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Politician, economist
DATE OF BIRTH = April 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH = Smolohovytsia, Ukraine
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