Vasyl Vovkun

Vasyl Volodymyrovych Vovkun (Ukrainian: Василь Володимирович Вовкун) was Minister for Culture and Tourism of Ukraine in the second Tymoshenko Government.

Vasyl Vovkun
Василь Вовкун
Minister for Culture and Tourism of Ukraine
In office
December 18, 2007 – March 11, 2010
Preceded byYuriy Bohutsky
Succeeded byMykhailo Kulyniak[1]
Personal details
Born (1957-06-16) June 16, 1957
Matsoshyn, Lviv region, Ukrainian SSR
Political partyOur Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc[2]
ResidenceKiev, Ukraine
OccupationTheatre producer and scriptwriter

Biography

Vovkun graduated from the theatre arts studio at the Zankovetska Lviv State Academical Drama Theatre and the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Arts. From 1981 he performed on stage of the Chernivtsi Theatre of Music and Drama and from 1989 until 1994 he was an actor at Kyiv studio-theatre "Budmo!". In 1994 he became production director of the Ukrainian State Centre of the Cultural Initiatives. He is also the Artistic Director of the Production Workshop "Artistic Agency Art Veles" from 1995 and from 2003 the General Producer of the Kyiv Festival (until 2004 – Britten Kyiv Festival).[3]

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References
  1. VR approved structure of Cabinet of Ministers (update), UNIAN (March 11, 2010)
  2. Culture And Tourism Minister Vovkun Sees His Dismissal As Possible. Ukrainian News Agency (March 13, 2009)
  3. VASYL VOVKUN – CULTURE AND TOURISM MINISTER OF UKRAINE, UKRINFORM (December 18, 2007)
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