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Valentyn Zghursky

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Preceded by
  
Volodymyr Husiev

Nationality
  
Ukrainian


Signature
  

Name
  
Valentyn Zghursky

Valentyn Zghursky

Succeeded by
  
Mykola Lavrukhin (Head of the Executive Committee of the Kiev City Council) and Arnold Nazarchuk (Head of the Kiev City Council)

Born
  
February 9, 1927 Birzula, Moldavian ASSR, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (
1927-02-09
)

Alma mater
  
Kiev Polytechnic Institute

Died
  
October 24, 2014, Kiev, Ukraine

Education
  
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

Political party
  
Communist Party of Ukraine

Valentyn Arsentiyovych Zghursky (Ukrainian: Валентин Арсентійович Згурський) was a head of the Executive Committee of the Kiev City Council.

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Biography

During World War II as a teenager he worked on Soviet railways. After graduating the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1954 as an electrical engineer, in 1950s-1970s Zghursky worked at the Soviet Defense company "Radiopribor" (Radio Instrument) in Kiev making there a career and eventually becoming its general director (1973-1979). Radiopribor was also known as the Korolyov Production Union.

After fall of the Soviet Union in 1994 Radiopribor was transformed into Meridian Factory.

Honours and awards

  • Hero of Socialist Labour (1981)
  • Order of Lenin (1981, 1986)
  • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1966, 1971)
  • Order of the October Revolution (1976)
  • Order of the Patriotic War (1985, First Class)
  • Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (2000, Third Class)
  • Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise (2007, Fifth Class)
  • Order of Merit (1997, Third Class)
  • Order For Courage (1999, Third Class)
  • State prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology

    • References

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