Valeriy Asadchev

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mykhailovych and the family name is Asadchev.

Valeriy Asadchev
Валерій Асадчев
Governor of Poltava Oblast
In office 26 May 2006 – 26 March 2010
President	Viktor Yushchenko
Preceded by	Stepan Bulba
Succeeded by	Oleksandr Udovidenko [uk]
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office 29 March 1998 – 26 May 2006
Preceded by	Oleksandr Slobodian (2002)
Succeeded by	Constituency abolished
Constituency	People's Movement of Ukraine, No. 37 (1998–2002) Kyiv, No. 220 (2002–2006)
Personal details
Born	(1953-07-14) 14 July 1953 (age 71) Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party	Ukrainian People's Party
Other political affiliations	People's Movement of Ukraine (until 2000) Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc
Alma mater	Kyiv Polytechnic Institute Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Valeriy Mykhailovych Asadchev (Ukrainian: Валерій Михайлович Асадчев; born 14 July 1953) is a Ukrainian politician and engineering technologist who served as Governor of Poltava Oblast from 2006 to 2010. He was previously a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 1998 to 2006, elected from the proportional list of the People's Movement of Ukraine and Kyiv's Podilskyi District.

Early life

Valeriy Asadchev was born on 14 July 1953, in Kyiv. In 1977, he graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute as a technological engineer and from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music as a choir conductor.[1] He attained another degree from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2003.[2]

Political career

Asadchev was first elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) in the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election, when he was elected as the 37th candidate on the proportional-representative list of the People's Movement of Ukraine. Following a split in the party, he joined the Ukrainian People's Party. He was chairman of the Subcommittee on the Budget of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.[3] During this time, he was among those who expressed opposition to the privatisation of land, arguing that "We cannot allow a dozen latifundists to be formed in Ukraine, and for the entire nation to become farm servants."[4]

In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election Asadchev was re-elected, this time from the 220th electoral district in Kyiv. He was elected as a member of the Ukraine Bloc, though he retained his membership in the Ukrainian People's Party. Within the Verkhovna Rada he was deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Budget Committee.[3]

On 26 May 2006, President Viktor Yushchenko appointed Asadchev as the head of the Poltava Regional State Administration.[5] At the time, he was a member of the Ukrainian People's Party. He held the post until 26 March 2010.[6]

References

1. "Співачка Тетяна Асадчева втекла із суду до консерваторії. І вже 10 років "іде з піснею до людей" | Music-Review Ukraine". www.m-r.co.ua. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
2. "Асадчев Валерий". LIGA (in Russian). Retrieved 28 December 2023.
3. "Асадчев Валерій Михайлович" [Asadchev, Valeriy Mykhailovych]. Officialdom of Ukraine Today (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 5 February 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
4. Amosov, Mykhailo. "The Land Question: land concentration and the agricultural land moratorium in Ukraine". Transnational Institute. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
5. Decree of the President of Ukraine from 26 May 2006 No.  437/2006 «Про призначення В. Асадчева головою Полтавської обласної державної адміністрації» (in Ukrainian)
6. Decree of the President of Ukraine from 26 March 2010 No.  446/2010 «Про звільнення В. Асадчева з посади голови Полтавської обласної державної адміністрації» (in Ukrainian)