List of members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine who died in office

List of Ukrainian MPs who died in office

The following is a list of members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine who died in office since its first convocation in 1990.

List

Member Party Constituency Date of death Age at death (years) Cause
Mykola Artemenko CPSU Cherkasy Oblast 1 June 1991[1] 65
Bohdan Kotyk CPSU Lviv Oblast 14 August 1991[2] 54
Vasyl Sanin N/A Kharkiv Oblast 12 October 1991 52 Road accident
Vadym Boyko Democratic Bloc Poltava Oblast 14 February 1992 29 Assassinated[3]
Ivan Popovych N/A Zakarpattia Oblast 21 March 1992 53-54
Anatoly Chepurnyi [uk] Agrarian (Agrarniki) Kharkiv Oblast 12 September 1993 52
Yakiv Apter Industralists Autonomous Republic of Crimea 18 November 1993 52 Road accident[4]
Roman Kuper UCRP Ternopil Oblast 30 May 1994[5] 34 Stroke
Vitaly Yurkovskyi KPU Sumy Oblast 21 August 1994 59
Vasyl Kornelyuk SelPU Volyn Oblast 8 October 1995 39 Road accident
Mykola Kashlyakov KPU Kharkiv Oblast 8 April 1996 43
Serhii Drahomaretskyi KPU Odesa Oblast 16 May 1996 41 Road accident
Mykhailo Myaskovskyi KPU Odesa Oblast 16 May 1996 52 Road accident (same as Serhii Drahomaretskyi)
Yevhen Shcherban Liberal Donetsk Oblast 3 November 1996 50 Assassinated[6]
Mykola Zavarzin KPU Donetsk Oblast 20 March 1997 53
Oleh Kukharchuk Independent Kirovohrad Oblast 12 August 1998 50 Accidentally shot by his daughter[7]
Oleksandr Kuznetsov Independent Zaporizhzhia Oblast 7 November 1998 45
Leonid Yakovenko KPU Proportional Representation 21 January 1999 52
Yurik Mkrtchyan Hromada Proportional Representation 29 January 1999[8] 60
Vyacheslav Chornovil Rukh Proportional Representation 25 March 1999 61 Road accident[9]
Vitaly Lutsenko KPU Proportional Representation 3 June 1999 62 Heart attack[10]
Ivan Kunev PSPU Proportional Representation 14 August 2000[11] 65
Yuriy Kononenko Party of Free Democrats Kharkiv Oblast 22 January 2001 45 Suicide by gunshot[12]
Oleksandr Yemets PRP Proportional Representation 28 January 2001 42 Road accident[13]
Oleh Oleksenko[14] Our Ukraine Bloc Zaporizhzhia Oblast 19 July 2002 39 Pancreatitis
Yaroslava Stetsko Our Ukraine Bloc Proportional Representation 12 March 2003 82 Heart failure[15]
Mykhailo Pavlovskyi[16] Tymoshenko Bloc Proportional Representation 26 February 2004 62
Ivan Chetverikov Independent Poltava Oblast 13 April 2004 52
Ihor Pluzhnikov SDPU(o) Proportional Representation 22 June 2005 47 Suspected poisoning[17]
Ivan Kuras For United Ukraine! Proportional Representation 16 October 2005 66
Volodymyr Yeshchenko KPU Proportional Representation 18 January 2006 56
Yevhen Kushnaryov Party of Regions Proportional Representation 17 January 2007 65 Shot in a hunting accident[18]
Anatoly Antemyuk Party of Regions Proportional Representation 9 May 2007 27 Road accident[19]
Vasyl Biba Party of Regions Proportional Representation 23 May 2007 59
Viktor Prokopenko Party of Regions Proportional Representation 18 August 2007 62 Fall[20]
Ivan Gerasymov[21] KPU Proportional Representation 4 June 2008 86
Mykhailo Syrota Lytvyn Bloc Proportional Representation 25 August 2008[22] 53 Road accident
Valery Bukaev Party of Regions Proportional Representation 25 January 2009[23] 33 Leukemia[24]
Ivan Spodarenko Our Ukraine Bloc Proportional Representation 18 December 2009[25] 78
Mykola Lisin Party of Regions Proportional Representation 17 April 2011 46 Road accident[26]
Volodymyr Polokhalo Tymoshenko Bloc Proportional Representation 23 September 2011 62 Heart attack[27]
Ihor Holovchenko Lytvyn Bloc Proportional Representation 7 April 2012 51 Heart attack
Volodymyr Polyachenko Our Ukraine Bloc Proportional Representation 20 April 2012[28] 73 Cancer
Oleksandr Savchuk Party of Regions Proportional Representation 11 November 2012[29] 58
Mykhailo Herasymchuk KPU Proportional Representation 7 November 2013 66[30] Lung cancer
Ihor Yeremeyev Independent Volyn Oblast 13 August 2015 49 Fall from a horse[31]
Petro Vanat People's Front Proportional Representation 8 February 2017[32] 79
Dmytro Tymchuk People's Front Proportional Representation 19 June 2019 46 Accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound[33]
Valeriy Davydenko Independent Chernihiv Oblast 23 May 2020 47 Self-inflicted gunshot wound[34]
Anton Polyakov Independent Chernihiv Oblast 8 October 2021 33 Alcohol and methadone ingestion[35]
Oleksii Kovalov SN Kherson Oblast 28 August 2022 33 Assassinated[36]
Andriy Ivanchuk Batkivshchyna Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast 28 August 2022 50 Thrombosis[37]

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