Victor Batiuk | |
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Віктор Батюк | |
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations | |
In office 1992–1993 | |
Prime Minister | Leonid Kravchuk |
Preceded by | Hennadiy Udovenko |
Succeeded by | Borys Hudyma |
2nd Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada | |
In office 1994 – January 17, 1996 | |
President | Leonid Kuchma |
Preceded by | Levko Lukyanenko |
Succeeded by | Volodymyr Furkalo |
Personal details | |
Born | 1939 Chelyabinsk Oblast |
Died | 1996 |
Alma mater | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
Victor Havrylovych Batiuk (Ukrainian: Віктор Гаврилович Батюк; 15 March 1939 – 2 December 1996) was a Ukrainian diplomat and poet, who has served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine, and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. He was the only one who knew Bengali and translated Rabindranath Tagore into Ukrainian.