Oleksandr Zinchenko (politician)

Oleksandr Zinchenko
Олександр Зінченко
Zinchenko in 2005
Head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine
In office 11 February 2009 – 17 March 2010
Preceded by	Yuriy Aleksieiev [uk]
Succeeded by	Yuriy Aleksieiev
State Secretary of Ukraine
In office 24 January 2005 – 6 September 2005
President	Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by	Viktor Medvedchuk
Succeeded by	Oleh Rybachuk
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office 12 May 1998 – 17 March 2005
Constituency	Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), No. 7 (1998–2002) Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), No. 3 (2002–2005)
Personal details
Born	(1957-04-16)16 April 1957 Slavuta, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Died	9 June 2010(2010-06-09) (aged 53) Kyiv, Ukraine
Resting place	Baikove Cemetery and Russian Academy of Public Service
Political party	Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1983–1992) SDPU(o) (1998–2003) Our Ukraine (2005) Union of Patriotic Forces [uk] Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
Alma mater	Chernivtsi University

Oleksandr Oleksiyovych Zinchenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Олексійович Зінченко; 16 April 1957 – 9 June 2010) was a Ukrainian politician who was Director-General of the National Space Agency of Ukraine from 2009 to 2010. Oleksandr Zinchenko had a controversial career that includes Soviet Komsomol leadership, business in Russia and Ukraine, participation in the pro-Leonid Kuchma Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), survival of cancer and joining the anti-Kuchma opposition.^[1]

Zinchenko was an Academician of the National TV Academy of Ukraine and has received the Honored Journalist of Ukraine award. He was married to a TV host, Iryna, and had two daughters, Kateryna and Oleksandra.^[2]