In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Oleksandrovych and the family name is Vakarchuk.
Ivan Vakarchuk
Іван Вакарчук
Vakarchuk in 2006
Minister of Education and Science
In office 18 December 2007 – 11 March 2010
President
Viktor Yushchenko
Prime Minister
Yulia Tymoshenko
Preceded by
Stanislav Nikolaenko
Succeeded by
Dmytro Tabachnyk
Rector of the University of Lviv
In office 11 March 2010 – 6 June 2013
Preceded by
Vasyl Vysochanskyi [uk]
Succeeded by
Vasyl Vysochanskyi
In office 13 November 1990 – 18 December 2007
Preceded by
Volodymyr Chuhainov [uk]
Succeeded by
Vasyl Vysochanskyi
Personal details
Born
(1947-03-06)6 March 1947 Brătușeni, Edineț Raion Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union
Died
4 April 2020(2020-04-04) (aged 73) Lviv, Ukraine
Spouse
Svitlana Oleksandrivna Vakarchuk
Children
Svyatoslav
Oleh
Alma mater
University of Lviv
Awards
Ivan Oleksandrovych Vakarchuk (Ukrainian: Іван Олександрович Вакарчук; 6 March 1947 – 4 April 2020) was a Soviet-Ukrainian physicist, politician and social activist. From 1990 to 2007 and again between 2010 and 2013 he was rector of the Lviv University. In 2007–2010 he was Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine. Hero of Ukraine (awarded on 5 March 2007), he was father of the leader of the rock band Okean Elzy Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.[1]
^Former Rector of Lviv University Ivan Vakarchuk died, UNIAN (4 March 2020) (in Ukrainian)
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