Yuriy Shcherbak

Yuriy Shcherbak
Юрій Щербак
Scherbak in 2014
1st Minister of Natural Environment Protection
In office
June 1991 – October 1992
PresidentLeonid Kravchuk
Prime MinisterVitold Fokin
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byYuriy Kostenko
Ambassador of Ukraine to Israel
In office
29 October 1992 – 22 October 1994
PresidentLeonid Kravchuk
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byOleksandr Maidannyk
Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States
In office
1994–1998
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byOleh Bilorus
Succeeded byAnton Buteyko
Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada
In office
9 March 2000 – 7 April 2003
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byVolodymyr Khandohiy
Succeeded byMykola Maimeskul
Personal details
Born (1934-10-12) 12 October 1934 (age 89)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political partyParty of Greens of Ukraine
Alma materKyiv Medical Institute
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Yuriy Mykolayovych Shcherbak (Ukrainian: Ю́рій Микола́йович Щерба́к; born 23 October 1934) is a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, publicist, epidemiologist, politician, diplomat, environmental activist and political analyst. Doctor of Medicine (1983), Laureate of Y. Yanovsky Literary Prize (1984) and O. Dovzhenko State Prize (1984).