Vitaly Mukha

In 1960, he graduated from the Kharkov Aviation Institute with a degree in mechanical engineer, associate professor. From 1960 to 1966 he was a foreman, deputy head of the shop, head of the shop of the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after V.I. VP Chkalova, since 1966 - head of department, deputy chief engineer, chief engineer, since 1973 - director of the Novosibirsk plant of electrothermal equipment at PA Sibelektroterm.[2][3]

From 1975 to 1982, he was the director of the plant and general director of PA "Sibelektroterm". From 1982 to 1988, he was promoted to general director of PA "Sibselmash".[2][3]

In 1963, Mukha joined the Communist Party.[3] On December 1988, Mukha started as the Second Secretary of the Novosibirsk Regional Committee of the CPSU.[2][3] Vladimir Kazarezov, who offered him this post, did not expect that Mukha would agree to leave the post of general director, where he received a salary of 1,200 rubles, to the post of second secretary with a salary of 520 rubles, but Mukha agreed. When he was appointed, problems arose, since he divorced his first wife, and had not yet formalized the relationship with the second. Kazarezov, who highly appreciated Mukha as the organizer of production, achieved his approval by contacting the Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Giorgy Razumovsky.[4]

On 30 October 1989, Mukha was promoted to the First Secretary of the Novosibirsk Regional Committee of the CPSU.[5][3]

Since April 1990, after being elected to leading positions in the regional council, he combined the positions of the chairman of the regional council of people's deputies and the first secretary of the regional party committee,[2] until August 1990. In August 1990, the XXIV regional conference of the CPSU, on the basis of the decision made on the inexpediency of combining the posts of Soviet and party leaders, Mukha was relieved of his duties as first secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU. The second secretary of the regional committee, Vladimir Poleshchuk, was appointed to this position.[6]

From 1990 to 1993, Mukha was the People's Deputy of Russia in the Chulym constituency No. 533 in the Novosibirsk Oblast. At the I Congress of People's Deputies of the RSFSR, he was a member of the deputy group "Communists of Russia", starting from the II Congress he was not a member of factions and blocs. In August 1991, during a speech by the State Emergency Committee, he called on the population of the Novosibirsk Oblast to be guided by the provisions of the Constitution of the USSR and not to give in to the calls of the President of the RSFSR, Boris Yeltsin for a general strike.[2][3] On 26 November 1991, by decree of the President of the RSFSR, Mukha was appointed 1st Governor (Head) of the administration of the Novosibirsk Oblast.[7]

In September 1993, Mukha was one of the organizers of the all-Siberian meeting of representatives of local councils, which put forward demands to Yeltsin to lift the blockade from the building of the Supreme Soviet of Russia in Moscow under the threat of blocking the Trans-Siberian railway.[2][3] After the dispersal of the Congress of People's Deputies and the Supreme Soviet in October 1993, he was removed from the post of governor (head) of the administration.[2] At the same year, Mukha became the chairman of the Board of Directors of TransSibAvia, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Vice President of Levoberezhny Bank in Novosibirsk.[2]

On 4 December 1995, in the second round of elections, Mukha was elected 3rd governor of the Novosibirsk Oblast.[8]

Since January 1996, he was a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, and a member of the Committee on Economic Policy. On 19 December 1999, Mukha took third place in the first round of the regular elections for the head of the Governor of Novosibirsk Oblast, with 18% of the votes, and dropped out of the further struggle.[9][2]

As member of parliament, he was a delegate to the XIX Party Conference (1988) and the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU (1986), a member of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1990-1991). From February 1992 to October 1993 and from December 15, 1996 he was the chairman of the Council of the Interregional Association "Siberian Agreement".

He died on 22 May 2005 in the village of Kudryashovsky from a heart attack.[10] He was buried on 24 May at the Zaeltsovsky cemetery in Novosibirsk.

He was married twice, had three sons and a daughter, and grandchildren.