Valentyn Zghursky
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Valentyn Zghursky | |
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Валентин Згурський | |
Head of the Executive Committee of the Kyiv City Council | |
In office November 1, 1979 – January 17, 1990 | |
Preceded by | Volodymyr Husiev |
Succeeded by | Mykola Lavrukhin (Head of the Executive Committee of the Kyiv City Council) and Arnold Nazarchuk (Head of the Kyiv City Council) |
Personal details | |
Born | Birzula, Moldavian ASSR, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | February 9, 1927
Died | October 24, 2014 Kyiv, Ukraine | (aged 87)
Nationality | Ukrainian |
Political party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Kyiv Polytechnic Institute |
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Valentyn Arsentiyovych Zghursky (Ukrainian: Валентин Арсентійович Згурський) was a head of the executive committee of the Kyiv City Council.
Biography
[edit]During World War II as a teenager he worked on Soviet railways. After graduating the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1954 as an electrical engineer, in 1950s-1970s Zghursky worked at the Soviet Defense company "Radiopribor" (Radio Instrument) in Kyiv making there a career and eventually becoming its general director (1973-1979). Radiopribor was also known as the Korolyov Production Union.
After dissolution of the Soviet Union, Radiopribor was transformed into a Meridian Factory in 1994.[1]
Honours and awards
[edit]- Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)
- Order of Lenin (1981, 1986)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1966, 1971)
- Order of the October Revolution (1976)
- Order of the Patriotic War (1985, 1st class)
- Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (2000, 3rd class)
- Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (2007, 5th class)
- Order of Merit (1997, 3rd class)
- Order for Courage (1999, 3rd class)
- State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Meridian Factory workers request to return stolen social guarantees. Gazette in Ukrainian. 22 April 2007
External links
[edit]- Kalnytsky, M. Participant of remarkable events. "Evening Kyiv". 30 October 2014
Categories:
- 1927 births
- 2014 deaths
- People from Podilsk Raion
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Kyiv Polytechnic Institute alumni
- Mayors of Kyiv
- Tenth convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities
- Eleventh convocation members of the Soviet of Nationalities
- Heroes of Socialist Labour
- Laureates of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology
- Recipients of the Order For Courage, 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Soviet colonels
- Ukrainian colonels
- Burials at Baikove Cemetery