Mykhailo Pozhyvanov

Mykhailo Pozhyvanov
Михайло Поживанов
Pozhyvanov in 2007
Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine
In office
17 December 2008  March 2010
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
23 November 2007  23 May 2008
Head of the State Reserve Agency of Ukraine
In office
8 June 2007  17 December 2008
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
5 April 2005  8 June 2007
Deputy Chairman of the Kyiv City State Administration
In office
June 2002  5 April 2005
1st Mayor of Mariupol
In office
9 June 1997  29 March 1998
Succeeded byYuriy Khotlubei
Member of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
11 May 1994  9 June 1997
Personal details
Born
Mikhailo Oleksandrovych Pozhyvanov

(1960-04-12) 12 April 1960
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Soviet Union
Political partyIndependent
Other political
affiliations
Agrarian Party of Ukraine
SpouseТatiyana Anatoliyivna
ChildrenOleksandr (1987), Valeriy (1989), Serhiy (1996)

Mikhailo Oleksandrovych Pozhyvanov (Ukrainian: Михайло Олександрович Поживанов; born 12 April 1960) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the Deputy Minister of Economy from 2008 to 2010.

Pozhyvanov had also served as a member of the Verkhovna Rada, from 2005 to 2008; having previously served from 1994 to 1997, before officially serving as the first mayor of Mariupol from 1997 to 1998.

He was the head of the NGO "Municipal Reforms Foundation 'Magdeburg Law'" (since 1998). He has a doctorate (Doctor of Technical Sciences) acquired in 1994, and a professor since 1996.