Vitaliy Masol

Vitaliy Masol
Віталій Масол
Masol in 2009
3rd Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office 16 June 1994 – 6 March 1995
President	Leonid Kravchuk Leonid Kuchma
Preceded by	Yukhym Zvyahilsky (acting)
Succeeded by	Yevhen Marchuk
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR
In office July 10, 1987 – October 23, 1990
President	Valentyna Shevchenko Volodymyr Ivashko (acting) Leonid Kravchuk (acting)
Preceded by	Oleksandr Liashko
Succeeded by	Vitold Fokin
Head of DerzhPlan
In office January 1979 – July 1987
Prime Minister	Oleksandr Liashko
Preceded by	Petro Rozenko
Succeeded by	Vitold Fokin
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office May 1990 – May 1994
In office May 1994 – May 1998
Personal details
Born	Vitaliy Andriyovych Masol (1928-11-14)14 November 1928 Olyshivka, Kyiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Died	21 September 2018(2018-09-21) (aged 89) Kyiv, Ukraine
Political party	Communist Party of Ukraine
Spouse	Nina Masol
Children	Ihor Masol
Alma mater	Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
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Vitaliy Andriyovych Masol (Ukrainian: Віталій Андрійович Масол; 14 November 1928 – 21 September 2018) was a Soviet-Ukrainian politician who served as leader of Ukraine on two occasions. He held various posts in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, most notably the Head of the Council of Ministers, which is the equivalent of today's Prime Minister, from 1987 until late 1990, when he was forced to resign. He was later Prime Minister of Ukraine, confirmed in that post on 16 June 1994. He resigned from that post on 1 March 1995.^[1]