Oleksandr Baranivsky


Oleksandr Petrovych Baranivsky is a Ukrainian politician and agronomist. Baranivsky served as Minister of Agrarian Policy. He was also member of Ukrainian parliament .
First Secretary of the Zhytomyr Regional Committee of the Socialist Party.

Early life

Baranivsky was born on 28 March 1955 in the village of Hayky, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. For his undergraduate degree, he went to the Zhytomyr Agricultural College from 1970 to 1974, and then started working in the agricultural sector. He started by working on the Shevchenko collective farm in the Ozera village, then at the Zhdanov collective farm in Dashynka, and then at the Dzerzhinsky collective farm.
In 1982, he received his PhD in economics from the Zhytomyr Agricultural Institute. After graduating, he started working in politics by becoming First Deputy Chairman of the Korostyshiv District Executive Committee, and then as party worker in the Zhytomyr Oblast. From 1991 to 1992 he was the Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Dzerzhinsky district.

Political career

He first became involved in national politics when he worked as an assistant-consultant to the People's Deputy Vasyl Sinko, and then from 2005 to 2006 he was appointed as Minister of Agrarian Policy. In 2011 he became Deputy Chairman of the Justice Party after it was formed from a merger.

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