Draft:Vitaliy Kurashyk

Vital Uladzimiravich Kurashik (Berlarusian: Віталь Уладзіміравіч Курашык; Ukrainian: Віталій Володимирович Курашик; born 8 May 1939), is a Belarusian and former Ukrainian politician who served as an ambassador of Belarus to Ukraine from 1993 to 2001.

He also served as the 1st prime minister of Crimea, serving from 1991 to 1993.

Kurashyk had also served as a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 1990 to 1991.

He is the academician of the Engineering Academy of Belarus. He is the honorary Doctor of the International Personnel Academy. He is the Honorary citizen of the city of Evpatoria, Crimea.

Biography
Vital Kurashik was born on 8 May 1939 in the village of Dzivin, Kobryn County, Pola Voivodeship, Poland (present-day Belarus).

He graduated from the Mechanical Faculty of the Ukrainian Correspondence Polytechnic Institute.

In 1956, he has been a student at the Tarez Mining Technical College of the Donetsk region.

In 1957, he graduated from a technical school in the city of Krasniy Luch, Voroshilovgrad (Luhansk) Oblast. In 1960, he graduated from the mining technical school in the city of Chistyakovo, Stalinsk (Donetsk) Oblast.

In 1960, he has been an electric locomotive driver, mining foreman of the "Kachagarka" mine in Horlavka, Donetsk Olast.

From June to August 1963, he worked in the design bureau.

Between 1963 and 1974, he was a technician, senior engineer, deputy chief technologist, chief technologist of the Kostyantyniv chemical plant in the Donetsk Oblast.

In 1967, he graduated from the mechanical faculty of the Ukrainian Correspondence Polytechnic Institute.

He joined the CPSU in 1970.

From 1974 to 1975, he was the head of the industrial and transport department of the Kostyantyniv City Committee of the Communist Party of Donetsk Region.

From 1975 to 1978, he was the 2nd secretary of the Kostyantyniv City Committee of the Communist Party of Donetsk Region.

Since 1978, he was promoted as the first secretary of the Konstantinovsky Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

From May to July 1982, he was an instructor of the Department of Organizational and Party Work of the Crimean Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

From July 1982 to 1985, he was the head of the executive committee of the Yevpatoriya City Council of People's Deputies of the Crimean Oblast.

In 1985 to 1986, he was the head of the industrial department of the Crimean Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

From 1986 to May 1987, he was the head of the department of organizational and party work of the Crimean Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

From February 1987 to December 1988, he was the deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Crimean Regional Council of People's Deputies.

From December 1988 to December 1989, he was promoted as the 1st Deputy Chairman of the executive committee of the Crimean Regional Council of People's Deputies. At the same time, within the same time frame, he was the head of the Main Planning and Economic Department of the Krtym Regional Executive Committee.

From December 1989 to March 1991, he was the chairman of the executive committee of the Crimean Regional Council of People's Deputies.

On 18 March 1990, Kurashyk was elected elected People's Deputy of Ukraine, 2nd round 65.47% of votes, 4 candidates. He was sworn into office on 15 May.

On 22 March 1991, Kurashyk became the 1st Prime Minister of Crimea.

On 11 May 1993, Kurashik became the Ambassador of Belarus to Ukraine, thus restoring his Belarusian citizenship.

From 1999 until 2001, he was the doyen of the diplomatic corps in Ukraine.

On 14 July 2001, he was replaced by his successor, Valiancin Vialička, as the Ambassador to Ukraine.

Since 2001, he was the first vice-president of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management.

Since 2003, he has been an adviser to the Representative of the President of OJSC LUKOIL in Ukraine.

In 2005, a member of the Party of Patriotic Forces of Ukraine.

Post politics


In 2015, he transferred his personal archive for permanent storage to the State Archive of the Republic of Crimea.