Valentyn Zghursky

Valentyn Arsentiyovych Zghursky (Валентин Арсентійович Згурський) was a head of the executive committee of the Kyiv City Council.

Biography
During World War II as a teenager he worked on Soviet railways. After graduating the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1954 as an electrical engineer, in 1950s-1970s Zghursky worked at the Soviet Defense company "Radiopribor" (Radio Instrument) in Kyiv making there a career and eventually becoming its general director (1973-1979). Radiopribor was also known as the Korolyov Production Union.

After dissolution of the Soviet Union, Radiopribor was transformed into a Meridian Factory in 1994.

Honours and awards

 * Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)
 * Order of Lenin (1981, 1986)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1966, 1971)
 * Order of the October Revolution (1976)
 * Order of the Patriotic War (1985, 1st class)
 * Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (2000, 3rd class)
 * Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (2007, 5th class)
 * Order of Merit (1997, 3rd class)
 * Order for Courage (1999, 3rd class)
 * State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology