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Leonid Danylovych Kuchma (Ukrainian: Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician. He was the second President of independent Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005.
Leonid Kuchma | |
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Леонід Кучма | |
![]() Kuchma in 2001 | |
Representative of Ukraine in the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine | |
In office 3 June 2019 – 28 July 2020 | |
President | Volodymyr Zelensky |
2nd President of Ukraine | |
In office 19 July 1994 – 23 January 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Vitaliy Masol Yevhen Marchuk Pavlo Lazarenko Valeriy Pustovoitenko Viktor Yushchenko Anatoliy Kinakh Viktor Yanukovych |
Preceded by | Leonid Kravchuk |
Succeeded by | Viktor Yushchenko |
Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
In office 13 October 1992 – 22 September 1993 | |
President | Leonid Kravchuk |
Deputy | Ihor Yukhnovskyi Yukhym Zvyahilsky |
Preceded by | Valentyn Symonenko (Acting) |
Succeeded by | Yukhym Zvyahilsky (Acting) |
General Director of Yuzhmash | |
In office November 1986 – 13 October 1992 | |
Preceded by | Aleksandr Makarov |
Succeeded by | Yuriy Alekseyev |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
1st convocation | |
In office 15 May 1990 – 10 May 1994 | |
Constituency | Communist Party (until August 1991), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, District No.81[1] |
People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
2nd convocation | |
In office 10 May 1994 – 15 July 1994 | |
Constituency | Independent, Chernihiv Oblast, District No.448[2] |
Personal details | |
Born | Leonid Danylovych Kuchma 9 August 1938 Chaikyne, Novhorod-Siverskyi Raion, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Political party |
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Spouse(s) | Lyudmila Talalayeva |
Children | Olena Pinchuk |
Alma mater | Dnipropetrovsk National University |
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He won the 1994 presidential election against his rival, the incumbent Leonid Kravchuk. Kuchma won re-election for an additional five-year term in 1999.
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