About Andriy Vasylyshyn
Lived 1933 – 2023 (aged 90). Andriy Vasylyshyn was a Russian and Ukrainian civil servant and chernobyl liquidator.
Andriy Volodymyrovych Vasylyshyn (; 24 April 1933 – 12 October 2023) was a Ukrainian Militsiya general. He was the first interior minister of the independent Ukraine.
Early life and education Vasylyshyn was born on 24 April 1933 in peasant family of kolkhoz in village of Vesnyanka, Starokostiantyniv Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast (today in Khmelnytskyi Oblast), historical region of Volhynia. In 1950 he finished a training center of Ministry of Soviet Farms of the Soviet Union.
Career Vasylyshyn was an army general He was appointed interior minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Vitold Fokin following the fall of the communist regime in 1991. He was reappointed to the post in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma in October 1992. He was dismissed by the Prime Minister in July 1994. He was replaced by Volodymyr Radchenko in the post.
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Ukrainian militsiya general (1933-2023)
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Andriy Vasylyshyn was born on 24 April 1933 in Vesnianka.
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Andriy Vasylyshyn died on 12 October 2023 in Kyiv.
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Andriy Vasylyshyn was a civil servant and chernobyl liquidator.
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Andriy Vasylyshyn was Russian and Ukrainian.
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