First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine

First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of Cabinet of Ukraine. In the absence of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, the First Vice Prime Minister performs his or her duty[lower-alpha 1] as the acting Prime Minister of Ukraine. In 1991 the post was grandfathered from the already existing First Deputy Chairman that was part of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
Перший віце-прем'єр-міністр України
Incumbent
Vacant
since 29 August 2019
Member ofCabinet of Ministers
SeatGovernment Building, Kiev, Ukraine
NominatorPrime Minister of Ukraine
AppointerSupreme Council of Ukraine
Term lengthNo fixed term
Constituting instrumentArticle 9 (About the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine)
Inaugural holderKostiantyn Masyk (since the independence of Ukraine)
Formation1946 (as First Deputy Chairman of Council of Ministers)
Websitewww.kmu.gov.ua/control/en

In an absence of the First Vice Prime Minister, his or her functions are performed by other Vice Prime Ministers who are members of the Cabinet of Ministers. Similarly to Prime Minister, all office duties of the First Vice Prime Minister are supported by the Secretariat of Cabinet of Ministers.

Along with other members of Cabinet of Ministers, the newly appointed First Vice Prime Minister takes one and the same oath of office at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to the Article 10 (Law of Ukraine about the Cabinet of Ministers), a member of Cabinet of Ministers (except for the Prime Minister of Ukraine) who refuses to take the oath is considered as such who refused to accept the post. Every newly appointed member of already existing cabinet needs to take the oath at the next plenary session of Verkhovna Rada.

List of First Vice Prime Ministers of Ukraine

Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR
No. Portrait Name Took Office Left Office Chairman
1 Oleksandr Tkachenko July 1990 August 1990 Vitaliy Masol
2 Anatoly Statynov 1990 1990
3 Kostyantyn Masyk August 1990 1992 Vitold Fokin

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

In April 1991 the Council of Ministers represented by existing government of Vitold Fokin and created by 12th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR was renamed into the Cabinet of Ministers. With adoption of the Act of Independence of Ukraine, the Ukrainian SSR was officially renamed into Ukraine. Because of the 1991 August Putsch in Moscow, the Communist Party was prohibited in Ukraine. In February 1992 there was adopted the new coat of arms.

No. Portrait Name Took Office Left Office Prime Minister(s)
1 Kostyantyn Masyk August 1990 July 1992 Vitold Fokin
2 Valentyn Symonenko July 1992 October 1992
3 Ihor Yukhnovskyi October 1992 March 1993 Leonid Kuchma
4 Yukhym Zvyahilsky June 1993 July 1994
5 Viktor Pynzenyk 31 October 1994 August 1995 Vitaliy Masol
6 Yevhen Marchuk 1994 8 June 1995
7 Pavlo Lazarenko September 1995 May 1996 Yevhen Marchuk
8 Vasyl Durdynets June 1996 July 1997 Pavlo Lazarenko
9 Anatoliy Holubchenko 08 August 1997 January 1998 Valeriy Pustovoitenko
10 Volodymyr Kuratchenko January 1998 July 1999
11 Anatoliy Kinakh July 1999 1999
12 Yuriy Yekhanurov December 1999 May 2001 Viktor Yushchenko
13 Oleh Dubyna May 2001 November 2002 Anatoliy Kinakh
14 Mykola Azarov November 2002 April 2005 Viktor Yanukovych
15 Anatoliy Kinakh August 2005 July 2006 Yulia Tymoshenko
16 Stanislav Stashevsky April 2005 August 2005 Yuriy Yekhanurov
17 Mykola Azarov July 2006 December 2007 Viktor Yanukovych
18 Oleksandr Turchynov December 2007 11 March 2010 Yulia Tymoshenko
19 Andriy Klyuyev 11 March 2010 14 February 2012 Mykola Azarov
20 Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi 14 February 2012 24 December 2012
21 Serhiy Arbuzov 24 December 2012 27 February 2014
22 Vitaly Yarema 27 February 2014 19 June 2014[1] Arseniy Yatsenyuk
23 Stepan Kubiv[2] 14 April 2016[2] 29 August 2019 Volodymyr Groysman

Notes
  1. Article 17, paragraph 2, Law of Ukraine about Cabinet of Ministers
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References
  1. MPs agree to Yarema's appointment as prosecutor general, Interfax-Ukraine (19 June 2014)
  2. New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)
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