Mykola Horyn

Mykola Mykolaiovych Horyn (; born 29 January 1945) is a Ukrainian politician who served as chairman of the Lviv Oblast Council from 1992 to 1997 and as Governor of Lviv Oblast from 1994 to 1997. He is a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine, and the younger brother of politicians and Soviet dissidents Bohdan and Mykhailo Horyn.

Early life and career Mykola Mykolaiovych Horyn was born on 29 January 1945 in the village of to a family of ethnically-Ukrainian peasants. Mykola Lebed was his cousin once removed, and his father died while fighting in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. He is the younger brother of Bohdan and Mykhailo Horyn. Mykola studied at Lviv Polytechnic from 1963 to 1968, graduating in electrical engineering. He worked at SKTB Termoprylad from 1968 to 1990, aside from a year between 1969 and 1970, when he completed conscript service in the Soviet Army. Horyn was a member of the People's Movement of Ukraine, and he also partook in the commission that drafted the Constitution of Ukraine. Horyn also briefly returned to the Lviv Oblast Council as a deputy in 2006.

Horyn has also invested a significant sum of money in the development of Staryi Sambir Raion, and he owns a home in the raion.