Vasyl Vovkun

Ukrainian actor

Василь Вовкун

Vovkun in 2007

Minister for Culture and Tourism of UkraineIn office
18 December 2007 – 11 March 2010Preceded byYuriy BohutskySucceeded byMykhailo Kulyniak^[1] Personal detailsBorn (1957-06-16) 16 June 1957 (age 66)
Matsoshyn, Lviv region, Ukrainian SSRPolitical partyOur Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc^[2]Residence(s)Kyiv, UkraineOccupationTheatre producer and scriptwriter

Vasyl Volodymyrovych Vovkun (Ukrainian: Василь Володимирович Вовкун) was Minister for Culture and Tourism of Ukraine in the second Tymoshenko Government.

Biography

Vovkun graduated from the theatre arts studio at the Zankovetska Lviv State Academical Drama Theatre and the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv State Institute of Theatrical Arts. From 1981 he performed on stage of the Chernivtsi Theatre of Music and Drama and from 1989 until 1994 he was an actor at Kyiv studio-theatre "Budmo!". In 1994 he became production director of the Ukrainian State Centre of the Cultural Initiatives. He is also the Artistic Director of the Production Workshop "Artistic Agency Art Veles" from 1995 and from 2003 the General Producer of the Kyiv Festival (until 2004 – Britten Kyiv Festival).^[3]

References

^ VR approved structure of Cabinet of Ministers (update), UNIAN (March 11, 2010)
^ Culture And Tourism Minister Vovkun Sees His Dismissal As Possible. Ukrainian News Agency (March 13, 2009)
^ VASYL VOVKUN – CULTURE AND TOURISM MINISTER OF UKRAINE, UKRINFORM (December 18, 2007)

Ministers of Culture of Ukraine

Soviet Ukraine

Kostiantyn Lytvyn
Rostyslav Babiychuk
Yuriy Yelchenko
Oleksiy Romanovskyi
Serhiy Bezklubenko
Yuriy Olenenko

Independent Ukraine

¹ denotes acting

Second government of Yulia Tymoshenko

Prime-minister: Yulia Tymoshenko
First vice-premier-minister: Oleksandr Turchynov
Vice-premier-minister: Ivan Vasyunyk
Vice-premier-minister: Hryhoriy Nemyria

Agrarian policy	Yuriy Melnyk
Internal affairs	Yuriy Lutsenko
Coal industry	Viktor Poltavets
Economy	Bohdan Danylyshyn
Communal Living	Oleksiy Kucherenko
Foreign affairs	Volodymyr Ohryzko Petro Poroshenko
Culture and Tourism	Vasyl Vovkun
Emergency and protection of population from consequences of the Chernobyl disaster	Volodymyr Shandra
Defense	Yuriy Yekhanurov
Education and Science	Ivan Vakarchuk
Healthcare	Vasyl Knyazevych
Protection of Natural Environment	Heorhiy Filipchuk
Fuel and Energy	Yuriy Prodan
Labor and Social policy	Lyudmila Denisova
Industrial policy	Volodymyr Novytskyi
Regional development and Construction	Vasyl Kuybida
Family, youth and sports	Yuriy Pavlenko
Transportation and Communication	Yosyp Vinskyi
Finance	Viktor Pynzenyk
Justice	Mykola Onyshchuk
Cabinet of Ministers	Petro Krupko