Viktor Pynzenyk
Viktor Pynzenyk | |
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Віктор Пинзеник | |
Pynzenyk in 2013 | |
| Minister of Finance of Ukraine | |
| In office 18 December 2007 – 17 February 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Mykola Azarov |
| Succeeded by | Ihor Umansky (Acting) |
| In office 4 February 2005 – 28 September 2005 28 September 2005 – August 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Mykola Azarov |
| Succeeded by | Mykola Azarov |
| First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
| In office 31 October 1994 – 5 September 1995 | |
| Preceded by | Yevhen Marchuk |
| Succeeded by | Pavlo Lazarenko |
| Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
| In office 3 August 1995 – 21 September 1996 21 September 1996 – 7 April 1997 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 April 1954 Smolohovytsia, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Political party | Independent (since 2010, before 2002) |
| Other political affiliations | Reforms and Order Party (1997–2010) |
| Spouse | Maria Romanivna (1969) |
| Children | Olga (1981), Yulia (1989), and Volodymyr (1993) |
| Occupation | Politician, economist and professor |
Viktor Mykhailovych Pynzenyk (Ukrainian: Віктор Михайлович Пинзеник; born 15 April 1954) is a Ukrainian politician, economist, and former Minister of Finance. He is the former leader of the Reforms and Order Party.
Pynzenyk has been credited with economic reform in post-Soviet Ukraine, helping to transform the country into a market economy and introducing Ukraine's new currency, the hryvnia in September 1996, with the help of Viktor Yushchenko, at the time Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine.