First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine (original) (raw)

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First Deputy Prime Minister of UkraineПерший віце-прем'єр-міністр України

IncumbentYulia Svyrydenkosince 4 November 2021
Member of	Cabinet of Ministers
Seat	Government Building, Kyiv, Ukraine
Nominator	Prime Minister of Ukraine
Appointer	Supreme Council of Ukraine
Term length	No fixed term
Constituting instrument	Article 9 (About the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine)
Inaugural holder	Kostiantyn Masyk (since the independence of Ukraine)
Formation	1946 (as First Deputy Chairman of Council of Ministers)
Website	www.kmu.gov.ua/control/en

First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine is a government post of the Cabinet of Ukraine. In the absence of the prime minister of Ukraine, the first vice prime minister performs his or her duties[a] as the acting prime minister. In 1991, the post was grandfathered from the already existing first deputy chairman that was part of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

In an absence of the first vice prime minister, his or her functions are performed by other vice prime ministers who are members of the Cabinet of Ministers. Similarly to the prime minister, all official duties of the first vice prime minister are supported by the Secretariat of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Along with other members of the Cabinet of Ministers, a newly appointed first vice prime minister takes the same oath of office at a plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine about the Cabinet of Ministers, a member of the Cabinet of Ministers (except the prime minister) who refuses to take the oath is considered to have refused to accept the post. Every newly appointed member of an already existing cabinet needs to take the oath at the next plenary session of the Verkhovna Rada.

List of first vice prime ministers of Ukraine

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Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR

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No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Oleksandr Tkachenko	July 1990	August 1990	Vitaliy Masol
2	Anatoly Statynov	1990	1990
3	Kostyantyn Masyk	August 1990	1992	Vitold Fokin

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

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In April 1991 the Council of Ministers represented by existing government of Vitold Fokin and created by 12th convocation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukrainian SSR was renamed into the Cabinet of Ministers. With adoption of the Act of Independence of Ukraine, the Ukrainian SSR was officially renamed into Ukraine. Because of the 1991 August Putsch in Moscow, the Communist Party was prohibited in Ukraine. In February 1992 there was adopted the new coat of arms.

No.	Name	Took office	Left office
1	Kostyantyn Masyk	August 1990	July 1992	Vitold Fokin
2	Valentyn Symonenko	July 1992	October 1992
3	Ihor Yukhnovskyi	October 1992	March 1993	Leonid Kuchma
4	Yukhym Zvyahilsky	June 1993	July 1994
5	Viktor Pynzenyk	31 October 1994	August 1995	Vitaliy Masol
6	Yevhen Marchuk	1994	8 June 1995
7	Pavlo Lazarenko	September 1995	May 1996	Yevhen Marchuk
8	Vasyl Durdynets	June 1996	July 1997	Pavlo Lazarenko
9	Anatoliy Holubchenko	8 August 1997	January 1998	Valeriy Pustovoitenko
10	Volodymyr Kuratchenko	January 1998	July 1999
11	Anatoliy Kinakh	July 1999	1999
12	Yuriy Yekhanurov	December 1999	May 2001	Viktor Yushchenko
13	Oleh Dubyna	May 2001	November 2002	Anatoliy Kinakh
14	Mykola Azarov	November 2002	April 2005	Viktor Yanukovych
15	Anatoliy Kinakh	August 2005	July 2006	Yulia Tymoshenko
16	Stanislav Stashevsky	April 2005	August 2005	Yuriy Yekhanurov
17	Mykola Azarov	July 2006	December 2007	Viktor Yanukovych
18	Oleksandr Turchynov	December 2007	11 March 2010	Yulia Tymoshenko
19	Andriy Klyuyev	11 March 2010	14 February 2012	Mykola Azarov
20	Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi	14 February 2012	24 December 2012
21	Serhiy Arbuzov	24 December 2012	27 February 2014
22	Vitaly Yarema	27 February 2014	19 June 2014[1]	Arseniy Yatsenyuk
23	Stepan Kubiv [2]	14 April 2016[2]	29 August 2019	Volodymyr Groysman
24	Oleksiy Liubchenko	20 May 2021[3]	3 November 2021[4]	Denys Shmyhal
25	Yulia Svyrydenko	4 November 2021[5]	Incumbent