Oleh Yukhnovskyi

Oleh Ivanovych Yukhnovskyi (; born 17 September 1962) is a Ukrainian politician and farmer who served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1998 to 2006, first from Ukraine's 13th electoral district and later on the proportional list of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Prior to his election, he was manager of Samohorodok Farm in . After losing re-election in 2006, he has remained actively involved in agricultural affairs, serving as chairman of the agricultural committee of the .

Early life and career Oleh Ivanovych Yukhnovskyi was born 17 September 1962 in the village of , in what was then the Soviet Union. From 1979 to 1984 he studied at the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy (now the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine), graduating with a specialisation in mechanical engineering. By 1998, he was manager of Samohorodok Farm, located in .

Political career Yukhnovskyi was an independent candidate in Ukraine's 13th electoral district, located in Vinnytsia Oblast, during the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election. He was successfully elected, and became a People's Deputy of Ukraine. He won re-election in 2002 as the 19th candidate on the proportional list of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. and was appointed secretary of the Committee in 2002.

Yukhnovskyi was awarded the title of Honoured Agricultural Worker of Ukraine on 25 March 2005.

Yukhnovskyi ran in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election as a candidate on the proportional list of the Lytvyn Bloc. However, he was not successfully elected. As chairman, Yukhnovskyi has provided support to smallholders who have refused to lease land to large farms and have instead cultivated it themselves, and he has additionally expressed opposition to bills backed by agribusinesses that would increase taxation on small farms.