Vasyl Vovkun

Vasyl Volodymyrovych Vovkun (; born 16 June 1957) was Minister for Culture and Tourism of Ukraine in the second Tymoshenko Government.

Biography Vovkun was born on 16 June 1957 in the village of Matsoshyn, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. As a creative director, he participated in numerous Ukrainian festivals, which were marked by ritual-like productions like Oedipus Rex.

During his time as Minister of Culture, he extensively lamented that most of the budget for the ministry went to salaries and next to none of it went to development funding and instead the funding was being drastically cut. He proposed reforms to allow for culture to earn revenue such as tourism licensing, and proposed a Concept for the Development of Ukrainian Culture and Law on Protecting the Ukrainian Information Space. He was an advocate for mandatory Ukrainian dubbing of all foreign films, including Soviet ones, for which he was accused of "forced Ukrainization", which he rejected.