Roman Karpyuk
Roman Petrovych Karpyuk was a Ukrainian politician. A member of the Batkivshchyna party and later the Strength and Honor party after 2020, he served as deputy chairman of the Volyn Oblast Council from 2014 to 2022.
Early life
Karpyuk was born on 31 January 1964 in, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. In 1985, he graduated from the Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University with a degree in physical education, qualifying him to be a teacher in physical education in secondary schools. Afterwards, he completed his mandatory conscription in the Soviet Armed Forces, before working as a coach and teacher in secondary schools in Volyn and Lutsk. In 1997, he transitioned into being the Chairman of the Board for the spports club "Olimpia". He then taught at the Lutsk Biotechnical Institute of ISTU as its Dean of Faculty.From 2000 to 2002 he was the Head of the Lutsk Representative Office of the Open International University of Human Development "Ukraine". Then, from 2002 to 2004, he was the rector of the Lutsk branch of the university. He was also from 2014 to 2015 Rector of the Academy of Recreational Technologies and Law. He was later appointed the head of the Volyn branch of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine.