Hennadiy Hennadiyovych Moskal (Ukrainian: Геннадій Геннадійович Москаль; 11 December 1950 – 17 March 2024) was a Ukrainian politician who served as governor of Zakarpattia Oblast from 2015 to 2019.[5][6] He was previously appointed governor of Luhansk Oblast during the early stages of the War in Donbas.[7][8]

Hennadiy Moskal
Геннадій Москаль
Moskal in 2014
Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast
In office
15 July 2015 – 11 June 2019
PresidentPetro Poroshenko
Preceded byVasyl Hubal
Succeeded byIvan Duran (acting)
In office
June 2001 – September 2002
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byViktor Baloha
Succeeded byIvan Rizik
Governor of Luhansk Oblast
In office
18 September 2014 – 15 July 2015
PresidentPetro Poroshenko
Preceded byIryna Verihina (acting)
Succeeded byYuriy Klimenko (acting)
In office
November 2005 – April 2006
PresidentViktor Yushchenko
Preceded byOleksiy Danilov
Succeeded byOleksandr Kobityev
Representatives of the President of Ukraine in Crimea
In office
2006–2007
PresidentViktor Yushchenko
Preceded byVolodymyr Kulish
Succeeded byViktor Shemchuk
People's Deputy of Ukraine
6th convocation
In office
23 November 2007 – 12 December 2012
ConstituencyIndependent, No.41[1]
7th convocation
In office
12 December 2012 – 27 November 2014
ConstituencyIndependent, No.32[2]
Personal details
Born(1950-12-11)11 December 1950
Zadubrivka, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died17 March 2024(2024-03-17) (aged 73)
Political partyBatkivshchyna
Other political
affiliations
Front of Changes[3] (December 2011 to June 2013)
Children1 daughter[4]
OccupationPolitician, lawyer[4]
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Moskal also acted as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and was a Merited Jurist of Ukraine (1997).[4][9]

Biography edit

Moskal was born on 11 December 1950 in Zadubrivka, Chernivtsi Oblast[10] into a family of public servants.[4][11][12] His father, Hennadiy Hadeyovych Hayfulin (or Hayfullin),[13] was an ethnic Tatar.[14] His mother, Stepaniya Pavlivna Moskal, was an ethnic Ukrainian.[citation needed]

Education edit

Gennady Moskal graduated from the Chernivtsi Railway College,[4] then in

Career edit

In 1975, Moskal started working as detective of Soviet police (Militsiya) in Chernivtsi, where he advanced from inspector to Militsiya Lieutenant General. During working in the structures of the Ministry of Internal Affairs he was the Deputy Chief of Militsiya in Chernivtsi oblast.

  • 1978–1992 – Chief of criminal investigation department of Chernivtsi Oblast militsiya (with breaks)
    • 1983–1986 – Deputy chief of militsiya in the Lenin district of Chernivtsi
  • 1992–1995 – Chief of criminal militsiya in Chernivtsi Oblast
  • 1995–1997 – Chief of militsiya in Zakarpattia Oblast.[4]
  • 1997–2000 – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief of militsiya in Crimea[4]
  • 2000–2001 – Internal Affairs, Chief of militsiya in Dnipropetrovsk region[4]
  • June 2001 – September 2002 – Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast[4]
  • 2002–2005 – Chairman of State Committee on Nationalities and Migration
  • February 2005 – November 2005 – Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Chief of criminal militsiya[4]
  • November 2005 – April 2006 – Governor of Luhansk region[4]
  • 2006 – the Permanent Representative of President of Ukraine in Crimea[4]
  • 9 January 2007 – appointed the Deputy Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) by Presidential Decree.[4]
  • April 2007 – May 2007 – Deputy Secretary of RNBU

Verkhovna Rada edit

In autumn 2007, Gennady Moskal was elected People's Deputy of Ukraine from Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (under No. 41). In Verkhovna Rada, he performed duties of the 1st Deputy Chairman of the committee to combat organized crime and corruption.[4] At the time of elections in 2007, Moskal was the president of the Kyiv law firm "Protection".[15]

On 19 August 2009, Gennady Moskal was re-appointed the Chief of the Internal Affairs Department in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, but in order to keep the parliamentary mandate, he resigned on 15 December 2009; on 16 December 2009, he was reinstated in the former position by the government. On 3 February 2010, President Viktor Yushchenko sent an inquiry to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine on the legality of coordinating both positions by Moskal; after that, Moskal resigned in Crimea.[citation needed]

Moskal joined the party Front of Changes in December 2011.[3] In 2012 he was re-elected into parliament on the party list of Fatherland.[16] On 15 June 2013, his Front for Change (party) merged into Batkivschyna.[17] On 25 August 2014 Moskal was expelled from Batkivschyna because he had supported and campaigned for Petro Poroshenko in the 25 May Ukrainian presidential election and not Batkivschyna's presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko.[18] From then until June 2019 Moskal was a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[19]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Moskal did not get elected (as an independent candidate) after losing in single-seat constituency 106 in Sievierodonetsk, with 11.99% of the vote.[20]

Luhansk Oblast Governor and Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast edit

On 18 September 2014, President Petro Poroshenko appointed Moskal Luhansk Oblast Governor.[8] At that time Luhansk Oblast was one of the front-lines of the war in Donbas.[7] On 15 July 2015, he was dismissed as Governor.[21] Moskal was appointed Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast the same day.[21] President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed Moskal and replaced him with Ivan Duran as acting Governor on 11 June 2019.[6]

Personal life and death edit

Moskal was married and had one daughter and two grandchildren.[4] He died on 17 March 2024, at the age of 73.[10][22] It was reported that he died "from a serious illness."[22]

Awards edit

  • 1997 – Honoured lawyer of Ukraine[4]
  • Honoured lawyer of AR Crimea[4]
  • Order of Merit, III and II grades[4]
  • Award "Nominal firearm"[4]
  • 2002 – Winner of the All-Ukrainian program "Leaders of the Regions"[4]

References edit

  1. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. ^ "People's Deputy of Ukraine of the VI convocation". Official portal (in Ukrainian). Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  3. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Москаль вступив до "Фронту змін", BBC Ukrainian (29 December 2011)
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short bio, LIGA
  5. ^ Poroshenko appoints volunteer Heorhiy Tuka head of Luhansk Regional State Administration, Ukraine Today (22 July 2015)
  6. ^ a b "Zelensky appoints acting heads of 12 regional state administrations". Interfax-Ukraine. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  7. ^ a b Donetsk airport shelling violates east Ukraine truce, BBC News (30 September 2014)
  8. ^ a b Poroshenko appoints Moskal as Luhansk regional governor, Kyiv Post (18 September 2014)
  9. ^ Edict of the President of Ukraine. 19 August 1997
  10. ^ a b "Former MP Hennadiy Moskal dies at the age of 73". Ukrainian National News, UNN.ua. 24 March 2024. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  11. ^ biography
  12. ^ Gennadiy Moskal, peoples.ru
  13. ^ Геннадий Москаль — самый обсуждаемый политик Archived 8 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  14. ^ (in Ukrainian) Чому пильний Геннадій Москаль приховує своє справжнє прізвище і національність? (ДОКУМЕНТИ, ВІДЕО) Archived 25 July 2015 at archive.today
  15. ^ "Народний Депутат України". Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  16. ^ (in Ukrainian) Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради, Ukrayinska Pravda (11 November 2012)
  17. ^ Sobolev: Front for Change and Reform and Order Party to join Batkivschyna, Interfax-Ukraine (11 June 2013)
    Front for Change, Reforms and Order to dissolve for merger with Batkivshchyna – Sobolev Archived 22 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrinform (11 June 2013)
  18. ^ MP Moskal, several other Batkivschyna members expelled from party for violation of statute – party's press service, Interfax-Ukraine (25 August 2014)
    (in Ukrainian) "Fatherland" explained that Moskal is out for the support of Poroshenko in elections, Ukrayinska Pravda (25 August 2014)
  19. ^ "Москаль вийшов із партії Порошенка".
  20. ^ "У Сєвєродонецьку кандидат програв вибори через "двійника"". 23 July 2019.
  21. ^ a b "Poroshenko appoints volunteer Heorhiy Tuka head of Luhansk Regional State Administration". Ukraine Today. 23 July 2015. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  22. ^ a b "Former head of Zakarpattia and Luhansk oblasts Hennadii Moskal dead at 73". Ukrainska Pravda. 17 March 2024. Retrieved 20 March 2024.

External links edit

Predecessor
Vasyl Hubal
  Governor of Zakarpattia Oblast
2015–2019
  Successor
Ivan Duran (acting)