Oleksandr Baranivsky

Oleksandr Petrovych Baranivsky (born 28 March 1955) is a Ukrainian politician and agronomist. Baranivsky served as Minister of Agrarian Policy (2005–2006). He was also member of Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) (2002–2005, 2006–2007).

First Secretary of the Zhytomyr Regional Committee of the Socialist Party (1998–2005).

Early life Baranivsky was born on 28 March 1955 in the village of Hayky (now part of Zhytomyr Raion), which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. For his undergraduate degree, he went to the Zhytomyr Agricultural College from 1970 to 1974, and then started working in the agricultural sector. He started by working on the Shevchenko collective farm in the Ozera village (also located in Zhytomyr), then at the Zhdanov collective farm in Dashynka, and then at the Dzerzhinsky collective farm.

Political career He first became involved in national politics when he worked as an assistant-consultant to the People's Deputy Vasyl Sinko (also of the Socialist Party), and then from 2005 to 2006 he was appointed as Minister of Agrarian Policy.