Maksym Yefimov

Maxim Viktorovich Efimov (; born 1 November 1974) is a Ukrainian politician and former People's Deputy of Ukraine from Ukraine's 48th electoral district from 2014 to December 2023. Formerly an independent and member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, and following this co-chair of Restoration of Ukraine alongside Igor Abramovych.

Early life and career Maxim Viktorovich Efimov was born on 1 November 1974 in the city of Petropavlovsk in the northern Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Petropavl in Kazakhstan). He is a graduate of the University of Bern's Department of Business Administration, the Donetsk National University (specialising in economics) and the Donetsk National Technical University (with a degree in ferrous metallurgy).

Efimov began working in 1996, as general director of the Kramatorsk Metallurgical and Machine-Building Company. From 1997 to 1998, he worked at Kramatorsk Multi-Industry Marketing Company before moving to Kramatorsk Aeronautical School, where he remained for a year before moving to the plant in Kramatorsk. or 2007, Efimov was appointed as head of EnerhoMashSpetsStal. In the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament), Efimov joined the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction, and was first deputy chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship. In the Verkhovna Rada, he joined Dovira, and became a member of the Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Committee, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the De-occupation and Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Minorities, and the Verkhovna Rada International Relations Committee.

On 1 December 2023, Efimov announced he had decided to withdraw his powers as a people's deputy. he stated he did so to help solving the needs of the Kramatorsk region that had been that had been significantly hit by the Russian army in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 8 December 2023 parliament officially terminated his parliamentary mandate.