Ivan Vakarchuk | |
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Іван Вакарчук | |
 Vakarchuk in 2006 | |
| Minister of Education and Science | |
| In office 18 December 2007 – 11 March 2010 | |
| President | Viktor Yushchenko |
| Prime Minister | Yulia Tymoshenko |
| Preceded by | Stanislav Nikolaenko |
| Succeeded by | Dmytro Tabachnyk |
| Rector of the University of Lviv | |
| In office 11 March 2010 – 6 June 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Vasyl Vysochanskyi |
| Succeeded by | Vasyl Vysochanskyi |
| In office 13 November 1990 – 18 December 2007 | |
| Preceded by | Volodymyr Chuhainov |
| Succeeded by | Vasyl Vysochanskyi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 March 1947 Brătușeni, Edineț Raion Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 4 April 2020 (aged 73) Lviv, Ukraine |
| Spouse | Svitlana Oleksandrivna Vakarchuk |
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| Alma mater | University of Lviv |
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Ivan Oleksandrovych Vakarchuk (Ukrainian: Іван Олександрович Вакарчук; 6 March 1947 – 4 April 2020) was a Soviet-Ukrainian physicist, politician and social activist. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013 he was rector of the Lviv University. In 2007–2010 he was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine (awarded on 5 March 2007), he was father of the leader of the rock band Okean Elzy Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.[1]
- ^ Former Rector of Lviv University Ivan Vakarchuk died, UNIAN (4 March 2020) (in Ukrainian)