Viktor Yushchenko

Born February 23, 1954 in the village of Khoruzhivka Sumy region in a family of teachers. Father - Andrei Andreyevich Yushchenko (1919-1992), a war veteran, after the war he taught English at a local school. Mother - Varvara Timofeyevna Yushchenko (1918-2005), professor of physics and mathematics.

Marital status
He is married and has five children and two grandchildren: sons Andriy and Taras, daughters Vitalina, Sofia and Christina, grandchildren Yarinka and Victor.
Wife - Ekaterina Mikhailovna Yushchenko.
Higher Education. In 1975 he graduated from the Ternopil Finance and Economics Institute. Candidate of Economic Sciences. PhD thesis on 'Development of demand and supply of money in Ukraine'. Academician of the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Economic Cybernetics.

Path of Labor and socio-political activities in 1975 Assistant Chief Accountant farm anniversary of the '40 October '.
1975-1976 service in the Soviet Army (frontier troops of the Soviet-Turkish border, not far from Leninakan).
1976-1985 Acting economist, head of the Ulyanovsk Branch of the State Bank.
1985-1987 Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Republican office of the State Bank.
1988-1990 Head of Department, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Republican Bank of the USSR Agroprombank.
1990-1993 Deputy, First Deputy Chairman of the Republican AK APB 'Ukraine'.
1993-1999 Chairman of the Board National Bank of Ukraine, Head of the NBU.
1999-2001 Prime Minister of Ukraine.
2001-2002 Director of the Ukrainian-Russia Institute of Management and Business. B. Yeltsin.
2002 - January 2005
People's deputy of Ukraine, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Human Rights, Minorities and Interethnic Relations. The head of the parliamentary faction Our Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
2003 --
January 2005 Chairman of the All-Ukrainian NGO 'Our Ukraine'.
Head of the Supervisory Board of the International Foundation "Ukraine 3000" (the Fund in. Yushchenko).

December 2004 Elected President.

Awards
Commander of the Order of Merit 'III degree.
Has the honorary title "Honored Economist of Ukraine '.
He was awarded honorary insignia, President of Ukraine.

Internet
The personal website of Viktor Yushchenko http://www.yuschenko.com.ua/