Volodymyr Oleksiyovych Makukha (Ukrainian: Володимир Олексійович Макуха; born 7 June 1955, Yaroslavl, Russia) is a Ukrainian politician and diplomat.[1] Minister of Economy of Ukraine in the second Yanukovych government from 4 August 2006 to 21 March 2007.[2] In 2006 he was the Ambassador of Ukraine in Japan.