Ministry of Infrastructure (Ukraine)

The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство інфраструктури України) functions as the main executive body that controls Ukraine's transportation infrastructure including roads, trains, and communications. The department is based on the former Transport and Communications Ministry and also oversees the implementation of government tourism policies.

Ministry of Infrastructure
Міністерство інфраструктури
Agency overview
Formed1917-1920 (as Ministry of Roadways)
July 1939 (People's Commissariat of Automobile Transport)[1]
Preceding agencies
  • Ministry of Transportation
    of Ukraine (1992-2004)
  • Ministry of Transportation and Communication (2004-2010)
Jurisdiction Ukraine
Headquarters14, Victory Square,
Kiev, Ukraine, 01135 [2]
Employees280 (2017)
Minister responsible
Parent agencyCabinet of Ministers
Child agencies
WebsiteOfficial website

In December 2010, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych announced that the former Transport and Communications Ministry (Ukrainian: Міністерство транспорту та зв'язку України) would be reorganized into the Ministry of Infrastructure. The head office was located in Kiev.[4][5] On 12 May 2011, the Ministry of Infrastructure was approved as the successor of the Transport and Communications Ministry.[6]

Structure

The Ministry comprises a central body, led by the minister, his/her first deputy, and other deputies who assist the minister. The Ministry also consists of several state administrations that specialize in certain fields and coordinate operations of government companies.

The ministry supervises implementation of government policy in transport and communication sectors as well as security related to transport. Transport of fuel fossils (i.e. oil and gas) is related to the government ministry on energy and fuel, while most of security responsibility matters are supervised by Ministry of Interior or other state agencies.

Subordinated agencies

As of 2017

  • State Aviation Service of Ukraine
  • State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine Ukravtodor (see Roads in Ukraine)
  • State Service of Ukraine in Security on Transport
  • State Transport Special Service (specialized agency)

Reorganized, liquidated, and not listed agencies
  • State Agency of Ukraine in Tourism and Resorts, a government agency in tourism (liquidated, successor is unknown)
  • State Administration of Rail Transport, in 2015 it was incorporated as a public stock company Ukrzaliznytsia
  • State Auto transportation Service became State Service of Ukraine in Security on Transport
  • State Inspection of Ukraine in Security of Sea and River Transportation became State Service of Ukraine in Security on Transport
  • Ukrainian Sea and River Fleet (in 2011 transformed into the State Inspection of Ukraine in Security of Sea and River Transportation)
  • State Special Communications Service of Ukraine
  • National Agency of Ukraine in preparation and conducting of Euro-2012
  • State Service of Communication, On June 30, 2011 the State Service of Communication, State Administration of Communication (less the state owned company Ukrposhta), and the Telecommunication Systems and Information Security branch of the Security Service of Ukraine were consolidated to become the administration of State Special Communications Service of Ukraine.[7]
Headquarters of the Ministry in Kiev

Companies (former state agencies)

List of Ministers of Transportation

Ministry of [Rail]ways (1917–1920)

In the Imperial Russia and after its dissolution its successor states, a term "ways of communication" encompassed administration of any means of transportation but were focused primarily on railways. In Ukraine, named as the ministry of ways was headed by railway specialists.

Name of Ministry Name of minister Term of Office
Start End
General Secretary of Ways Vsevolod Holubovych July 1917 August 1917
Minister (General Secretary) of Ways Vadym Yeshchenko September 1917 31 January 1918
Minister of Ways Yevhen Sokovych 31 January 1918 29 April 1918
Boris Butenko 29 April 1918 14 November 1918
V.Laindeberg 14 November 1918 14 December 1918
Pylyp Pylypchuk 26 December 1918 9 April 1919
Mykola Shadlun 9 April 1919 29 August 1919
Serhiy Tymoshenko 29 August 1919 31 December 1920

State Secretariat of Communications (Ways)
Name of Ministry Name of minister Term of Office
Start End
State Secretary of Communications (Ways) Ivan Myron 9 November 1918 9 June 1919

Ministry of Transport (Soviet Ukraine)
Name of Ministry Name of minister Term of Office
Start End
Ministry of Automobile Transport and Chausses Roadways Mykhailo Dovhal 25 травня 1953 29 травня 1961
Ivan Bratchenko 29 травня 1961 1968
Ministry of Automobile Transport Ivan Bratchenko 1968 1 квітня 1970
Fedir Holovchenko 1 April 1970 26 November 1984
Pavlo Volkov 26 November 1984 1988
Ministry of Transport Pavlo Volkov 1988 1991

Post Soviet Ministry
Name of Ministry Name of minister Term of Office
Start End
Ministry of Transport Orest Klympush March 1992 July 1994
Ivan Dankevych July 1995 May 1997
Mykola Kruhlov May 23, 1997 July 17, 1997
Valeriy Cherep August 11, 1997 April 1998
Ivan Dankevych August 7, 1998 October 5, 1999
Leonid Kostyuchenko 1999 May 2001
Valeriy Pustovoitenko June 9, 2001 April 30, 2002
Heorhiy Kirpa May 2002 July 24, 2004
Ministry of Transport
and Communication		 Heorhiy Kirpa July 24, 2004 December 27, 2004
Yevhen Chervonenko February 2005 September 2005
Viktor Bondar September 2005 September 2006
Mykola Rudkovsky August 4, 2006 2007
Yosyp Vinsky December 18, 2007 June 23, 2009
Kostyantyn Yefymenko March 11, 2010 December 9, 2010
Ministry of Infrastructure Borys Kolesnikov December 9, 2010 24 December 2012
Volodymyr Kozak 24 December 2012 27 February 2014
Maksym Burbak 27 February 2014 2 December 2014
Andriy Pyvovarsky 2 December 2014 14 April 2016[10]
Volodymyr Omelyan 14 April 2016[10] 29 August 2019
Vladyslav Krykliy 29 August 2019[3] Present

List of Ministers of Communications

See also

References
  1. History of automobile transport of Ukraine (Історія автомобільного транспорту України). Portal Ukraine.
  2. "Official website. Address (bottom of the page)". Mar 2017.
  3. Iwański, Tadeusz; Matuszak, Sławomir (2019-08-30). "Government of experts in Ukraine". Centre for Eastern Studies. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
    Turkey, Egypt, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro open borders for Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine (1 July 2020)
  4. "Home." Ministry of Transportation and Communication. 10 March 2010. Retrieved on 29 April 2013. "01135, г. Киев-135, пр. Победы, 14"
  5. "Menu." Ministry of Transport. 10 August 2003. Retrieved on 29 April 2013. "03680, м. Київ-150, вул. Щорса, 7/9"
  6. Yanukovych dismisses deputy transport and communications minister, Kyiv Post (23 February 2012)
  7. Ukase of the President of Ukraine
  8. Official website
  9. Пошуково-рятувальне судно “Сапфір” провело навчання поблизу Скадовська. mil.in.ua. 22 February 2019
  10. New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)
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