Vitold Fokin

Vitold Fokin
Вітольд Фокін
Fokin in 2007
1st[a] Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
23 October 1990 – 1 October 1992
(Acting until 14 November 1990)
PresidentLeonid Kravchuk
Preceded byVitaliy Masol (Soviet)
Succeeded byValentyn Symonenko (acting)
Chairman of DerzhPlan
In office
July 1987 – 1990
Prime MinisterVitaliy Masol
Preceded byVitaliy Masol
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born (1932-10-25) 25 October 1932 (age 92)
Novomykolaivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
KPU (until 1991)
SpouseTomila Hryhoriivna (died 9 October 2023)[1]
Children2
Alma materNational Mining University of Ukraine
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Vitold Pavlovych Fokin (Ukrainian: Віто́льд Па́влович Фо́кін; born 25 October 1932) is a Ukrainian retired politician who served as the first prime minister of Ukraine from the country's declaration of independence on 24 August 1991 until 1 October 1992. Previously, he served as the prime minister of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 23 October 1990 to 24 August 1991.

After Vitaliy Masol was forced to resign, Fokin was appointed as the head of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR on 17 October 1990.[2]


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  1. ^ "Співачка Маша Фокіна повідомила про смерть бабусі - Новини України". 9 October 2023.
  2. ^ Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 1999, Routledge, 1998, ISBN 1857430581 (page 850)