Kostyantyn Masyk

Kostyantyn Masyk (Ukrainian: Костянтин Іванович Масик) is a Ukrainian state official and diplomat.

Kostyantyn Masyk
Костянтин Іванович Масик
Deputy chairman of Council of Ministers
In office
11 September 1981  18 August 1986
Prime MinisterOleksandr Liashko
In office
July 1989  3 August 1990
Prime MinisterVitaliy Masol
First Vice Prime Minister (First deputy chairman)
In office
3 August 1990[1]  October 1992
Prime MinisterVitaliy Masol
Vitold Fokin
Prime Minister (acting, ex officio)
In office
October 1990  November 1990
Preceded byVitaliy Masol
Succeeded byVitold Fokin
In office
August 1991[2]  August 1991
Preceded byVitold Fokin
Succeeded byVitold Fokin
Ambassador of Ukraine to Finland (concurrently Sweden, Norway, and Denmark)
In office
1992  June 1997
PresidentLeonid Kravchuk
Leonid Kuchma
Preceded bypost revived (Petro Slyvenko in 1920-22)
Succeeded byIhor Podolyev
Personal details
Born (1936-07-09) July 9, 1936
Volochysk, Vinnytsia Oblast, Soviet Union
Political partyCommunist Party of Ukraine
Occupationstate official, diplomat
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Masyk was born in Volochysk on 9 July 1936. A graduate of the Gorky Institute of Water Transport Engineers, his working career Masyk started at the Kyiv factory of ship construction and repair in 1959-60. In 1960s he became an activist of Komsomol of Ukraine becoming its first secretary in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast.

In 1962 Masyk joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and finished the Higher Party School. In 1970s he served on the party's positions in Kyiv and Odessa. In 1980s Masyk was a deputy chairman of council of ministers of the Ukrainian SSR and the First secretary of the Kyiv city party committee.

In 1990-1992 Masyk was a first deputy chairman and vice-prime Minister of Ukraine and was acting head of government soon after ousting of Vitaliy Masol following the 1990 Kyiv students' hunger strike.

In 1992–1997 he served as an ambassador of Ukraine to Finland and after that director of Nadra Bank.

Later Masyk joined Party of Regions.

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Political offices
Preceded by
Director of Nadra Bank
1997
Succeeded by
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