Larysa Khorolets

Larysa Ivanovna Khorolets (born 25 August 1948) is a Ukrainian actress who served as the Minister of Culture of Ukraine. She served in that role in the Ukrainian SSR in 1991, and kept that position upon Ukraine's independence later that year, serving until 1992.

Larysa Khorolets Лариса Іванівна Хоролець
1st Minister of Culture of Ukraine
In office 24 August 1991 – 17 November 1992
President	Leonid Kravchuk
Succeeded by	Ivan Dzyuba
7th Minister of Culture of Ukrainian SSR
In office 7 July 1991 – 24 August 1991
Preceded by	Yuri Olenenko
Personal details
Born	(1948-08-25) 25 August 1948 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR

Life

Khorolets was born in Kiev and she made her acting debut in Partizanskaya iskra (1957) at the age of eight, and graduated from the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University in 1970. After graduating she served in the National Writers' Union of Ukraine, and from 1973 to 1990 she was an actress at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater. In 1988, she was named a People's Artist of Ukraine.[1]

In 1991, after attending the World Conference of Women Playwrights in Toronto, Canada, Khorolets was nominated to be the Minister of Culture. She accepted, and served from 7 July 1991 to 17 November 1992. Her primary role as Minister of Culture was to rebuild. She needed to kickstart theatres which had been abandoned after the fall of communism in Ukraine. She left the cabinet when the new President was elected. Khorolets remained working in the government, serving as director of the convention centre known as Ukrainian House until 1998.[2]

References

1. Лариса Хоролец (in Russian). kino-teatr.ru. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
2. ЛАРИСА ХОРОЛЕЦ: «ЦЕНТРОМ КУЛЬТУРНОЙ ЖИЗНИ КИЕВА СТАНОВИТСЯ УКРАИНСКИЙ ДОМ. КОЕ-КОГО ЭТО РАЗДРАЖАЕТ» ТРИ ЖИЗНИ ОДНОЙ ЖЕНЩИНЫ (in Ukrainian). zn.ua. 10 February 1995. Retrieved 22 August 2018.