User:Yevhen Kropyvnytskyi/Chornovyk/List of Ukraine presidential firsts

This list lists achievements and distinctions of various presidents of Ukraine after Dissolution of the Soviet Union. It includes distinctions achieved in their earlier life and post-presidencies.

Leonid Kravchuk

 * The first president of Ukraine;
 * The first president to win in the first round of presidential elections; [the second was Petro Poroshenko]
 * The first president to serve an incomplete presidential term; [the second was Viktor Yanukovych, who was removed from office following the Euromaidan]
 * The first and only president who headed the parliament of Ukraine before his presidency;
 * The first and only president whose political career began before Perestroika;
 * The first president, who during the years of the Ukrainian SSR was a member of the CPU; [Leonid Kuchma was the second, Viktor Yushchenko was third, Viktor Yanukovych was fourth]
 * The first president who was not a member of a political party during his presidential term; [the second was Leonid Kuchma, the third — Vladimir Zelensky]
 * The first president with a degree in economics; [the second was Viktor Yushchenko]
 * The first president with a Ph.D. degree; [the second was Leonid Kuchma, the third — Viktor Yushchenko, the fourth — Petro Poroshenko]
 * The first and only president born in another state; [at the time of Leonid Kravchuk's birth, his native village, Velykyi Zhytyn, was part of Poland, but today it is part of Ukraine]
 * The first president born before World War II; [the second was Leonid Kuchma]
 * The first president whose father was killed in the Second World War; [the second was Leonid Kuchma]
 * The first president who was openly a parishioner of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate; [the second was Petro Poroshenko]
 * The first president whose parents died before his election; [Leonid Kuchma was the second, Viktor Yanukovych was the third]
 * The first and only president raised by his stepfather, not his own father;
 * The first president who is the father of one child; [the second was Leonid Kuchma]

Leonid Kuchma

 * The first president elected in early presidential elections; [the second was Petro Poroshenko]
 * The first and only president to serve two presidential terms;
 * The first president to win in the second round of the presidential election; [the second was Viktor Yanukovych, the third was Vladimir Zelensky]
 * The first president who headed the government of Ukraine before his presidency; [Viktor Yushchenko was second, Viktor Yanukovych was third]
 * The first president against whom a criminal case was initiated; [the second was Viktor Yanukovych]
 * The first and only president, who during the years of the USSR became a laureate of the Lenin Prize;
 * The first president who was not a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, being a member of the party;
 * The first president, who during the years of independent Ukraine was not a member of political parties; [second was Vladimir Zelensky]
 * The first president with the education of an engineer; [the second was Viktor Yanukovych]
 * The first and only president raised by a single mother;
 * The first and only president who became related to the oligarch; [The daughter of Leonid Kravchuk, Elena is a wife of the billionaire of Jewish origin Viktor Pinchuk]
 * The first president, whose grandchildren were born during his presidential term; [the second was Petro Poroshenko]

Viktor Yushchenko

 * The first and only president who served as Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine until his presidency;
 * The first and only president who took part in the presidential elections after his first term, but did not get into the second round;
 * The first president to be a member of a political party during his presidential term; [the second was Viktor Yanukovych]
 * The first and only president who was younger than his successor in office;
 * The first president from a family of Cossack origin;
 * The first president raised by his own father and mother; [the second was Petro Poroshenko, the third was Vladimir Zelensky]
 * The first president, whose father participated in the Second World War and survived it; [second was Vladimir Zelensky]
 * The first president, born after the Second World War, but before the Khrushchev thaw; [the second was Viktor Yanukovych]
 * The first and only president to have buried a parent during his presidency;
 * The first and only president who divorced his wife and entered into a second marriage;
 * The first president to father more than two children; [the second was Petro Poroshenko]

Viktor Yanukovych

 * The first and only president, removed from power as a result of mass protests and deprived of the presidency by the decision of the Verkhovna Rada;
 * The first and only president who until his presidency headed the government of Ukraine under two presidents;
 * The first and only president who held the post of regional governor until his presidency;
 * The first president ever to be a member of the Party of Regions; [the second was Petro Poroshenko, who was one of the founders of the party]
 * The first and only president who was older than his predecessor in office;
 * The first and only president with a doctorate degree;
 * The first and only president of mixed Russian-Ukrainian ethnic origin;
 * The first and only president, whose ancestors were Poles;
 * The first and only president who is openly a parishioner of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate;
 * The first and only president who was not raised by his mother;
 * The first president who is the father of two children; [second was Vladimir Zelensky]
 * The first and only president who buried his child;

Petro Poroshenko

 * The first and only president who held ministerial posts before his presidency;
 * The first and only president to be a dollar billionaire;
 * The first and only president actively involved in political life after his presidential term;
 * The first president of Ukraine who speaks foreign languages, besides Russian; [second was Vladimir Zelensky]
 * The first president born during the Brezhnevian Stagnation years; [second was Vladimir Zelensky]
 * The first and only president who studied at the school of another union republic (Moldavia);
 * First president to have a parents live throughout his presidency; [second was Vladimir Zelensky]

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

 * The first president of Ukraine, who did not hold any government posts before his election;
 * The first president of Ukraine who has never been a member of any political parties;
 * The first president of partially Jewish origin;
 * The first president to study at the school of another socialist state (Mongolia);
 * The first president who never worked in the field in which he was graduated;