Heorhiy Kirpa

Heorhiy Kirpa statue inside Uzhhorod railway station

Heorhiy Mykolayovych Kirpa (Ukrainian: Георгій Миколайович Кірпа) (20 July 1946 in Klubivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast – 27 December 2004 in Bortnychi, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian railway manager, statesman and politician, best known as the head of the Ukrzaliznytsia national railway company and Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications under President Leonid Kuchma.