Vadym Hetman

Vadym Hetman
Вадим Гетьман
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
18 March 1990 – 29 March 1998
ConstituencyCherkasy Oblast, No. 425
2nd Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine
In office
24 March 1992 – 1993
Preceded byVolodymyr Matvienko
Succeeded byViktor Yushchenko
Personal details
Born(1935-07-12)12 July 1935
Snityn, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
(now Ukraine)
Died22 April 1998(1998-04-22) (aged 62)
Kyiv, Ukraine
Political partyIndependent
RelationsWife and two children[1]
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Vadym Petrovych Hetman (Ukrainian: Вадим Петрович Гетьман; 12 July 1935 – 22 April 1998) was a Ukrainian statesman, politician, and banker. He is credited with the creation of the National Bank of Ukraine, Ukraine's central bank. He was assassinated in April 1998 in his home in Kyiv. According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the crime was paid for by former Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko.[2][3] He was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine on 11 July 2005.

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  3. ^ "Генпрокуратура перевіряє Тимошенко на причетність до ще одного вбивства". BBC News Україна (in Ukrainian). 7 April 2012. Retrieved 10 October 2023.