{"id":5492,"date":"2026-07-09T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepersona.com.ua\/oleksandr-turchynov-5492\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:24:33","slug":"oleksandr-turchynov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepersona.com.ua\/en\/politicians\/oleksandr-turchynov-5492\/","title":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Turchynov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Oleksandr Turchynov &#8211; Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (2014-2019), Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (2014), Acting President of Ukraine (2014), People&#8217;s Deputy of Ukraine (1998-2014).  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Place of Birth, Education<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was born on <strong>March 31, 1964 <\/strong>in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro).  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1986, he graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Metallurgical Institute.  <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Career<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After graduating from the institute, Turchynov worked as a roller, as well as a foreman at the Kryvorizhstal plant. After that, he switched to Komsomol work. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 1987 to 1989, he was the secretary of the district committee and headed the propaganda department of the Dnipropetrovsk regional committee of the Lenin Communist Youth Union of Ukraine (LKSMU).  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In particular, he became one of the coordinators of the Democratic Platform in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), which advocated the renewal and decentralization of the Communist Party. Because of this, he lost his party card. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1990, <strong>he was one of the co-founders of the Ukrainian branch of the IMA-Press news agency<\/strong> and headed it. The agency was engaged in the publication of books and newspapers. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1991, Turchynov headed the Institute of International Relations, Economics, Politics and Law, which he created.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From 1992 to 1993, he headed the Economic Committee of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration. After that, until 1994, he worked as an adviser to the then Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/thepersona.com.ua\/en\/politicians\/leonid-kuchma-4736\/\" id=\"1886\">Leonid Kuchma<\/a> on economic issues.   <\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Political Activities<\/h3>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1994, <strong>he founded the All-Ukrainian Association &#8220;Community&#8221;.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly before that, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepersona.com.ua\/en\/politicians\/yulia-tymoshenko-5794\/\" id=\"1186\">Yulia Tymoshenko<\/a>, who was then one of the heads of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine Corporation, joined the &#8220;Community&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1998, Turchynov <strong>became a people&#8217;s deputy for the first time<\/strong>. In the future, he was also elected to the Council in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2012 and 2014.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He received his first mandate on the list of the &#8220;Community&#8221;, but shortly after an internal split he was expelled from the party. In the parliament, he headed the budget committee.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In July 1999,<strong> Turchynov and Tymoshenko created a new political project &#8211; the All-Ukrainian Union (VO) &#8220;Batkivshchyna&#8221;.<\/strong> The party was headed by Tymoshenko, who soon became Deputy Prime Minister for Fuel and Energy Complex in the government <a href=\"https:\/\/thepersona.com.ua\/en\/politicians\/viktor-yushchenko-4035\/\" id=\"1879\">of Viktor Yushchenko<\/a>.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the summer of 2000, Tymoshenko&#8217;s relations with then-President Kuchma and his entourage deteriorated sharply. In January 2001, she was dismissed from the government, and later placed in a pre-trial detention center.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that, Turchynov and Tymoshenko, together with Batkivshchyna, went into opposition, with the exception of 8 months after the Orange Revolution. At that time, they took part in the actions &#8220;Ukraine without Kuchma&#8221; and &#8220;Rise, Ukraine!&#8221;, the creation of the National Salvation Forum, as well as in the Orange Revolution, after which Yushchenko won the presidential election.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From February to September 2005, Turchynov<strong> headed the Security Service of Ukraine <\/strong>(SBU).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On May 23, 2007, President Yushchenko <strong>appointed him First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council <\/strong>(NSDC).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the early parliamentary elections of the same year, Turchynov again headed the election headquarters of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT).  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the creation of the coalition &#8220;BYuT&#8221; with the bloc &#8220;Our Ukraine &#8211; People&#8217;s Self-Defense&#8221; and the appointment of Tymoshenko as Prime Minister, Turchynov <strong>became the first Deputy Prime Minister<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the decision of the Council to hold early elections of the mayor of Kyiv and deputies of the Kyiv City Council, Turchynov was nominated as a candidate for the post of mayor from &#8220;BYuT&#8221;. In the elections, he took 2nd place, losing to Leonid Chernovetsky. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2010, <a href=\"https:\/\/thepersona.com.ua\/en\/politicians\/viktor-yanukovych-4036\/\" id=\"1672\">Viktor Yanukovych<\/a> won the presidential election. After that, Tymoshenko&#8217;s government was dismissed, and Turchynov lost the post of first deputy prime minister. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From December 2012 to November 2014, Turchynov <strong>was a people&#8217;s deputy of the VII convocation from Batkivshchyna<\/strong>. He worked in the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Informatization and Information Technologies, and also served as the first deputy chairman of the party. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On February 22, 2014, he <strong>was elected chairman of the Verkhovna Rada<\/strong>. The next day, <strong>the parliament entrusted him with the duties of the President of Ukraine<\/strong>. He fulfilled them until the election of a new head of state in the early elections on May 25.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August, Turchynov, along with Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Arsen Avakov and other politicians, left the political council of Batkivshchyna due to disagreements within the party. Prior to that, he was the first deputy head of the political force and headed its Central Headquarters. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After leaving Batkivshchyna, they <strong>created the People&#8217;s Front party<\/strong>. In the early parliamentary elections of 2014, this political force took 1st place. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On November 27, Turchynov<strong> announced the end of his powers as chairman of the parliament<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On December 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/thepersona.com.ua\/en\/politicians\/petro-poroshenko-6484\/\" id=\"1490\">, President Petro Poroshenko<\/a> <strong>appointed him Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council<\/strong>. The politician held this position until May 17, 2019. At the same time, he resigned, explaining this by the end of Poroshenko&#8217;s presidential powers. 2 days later, on May 19, the president officially dismissed him from office.     <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June 2020, Turchynov <strong>headed the election headquarters of the European Solidarity party<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marital Status<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turchynov is married to Hanna Turchynova.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The couple has a son, Kyrylo, who served in the National Guard of Ukraine in 2014-2016.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleksandr Turchynov &#8211; Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (2014-2019), Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (2014), Acting President of Ukraine (2014), People&#8217;s Deputy of Ukraine (1998-2014). Place of Birth, Education He was born on March 31, 1964 in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro). 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