Marchuk, Evgeny Kirillovich

He graduated from the Kirovograd Pedagogical Institute. Alexander Pushkin , where he studied in 1958-1963, is a teacher of the Ukrainian language and literature, a teacher of the German language. Already in his student days he was recruited by the KGB . After graduating from the institute, he was an operative officer of the Kirovograd Regional Directorate of the KGB. Since 1965, the younger, then the senior detective, deputy chief, head of department, deputy head of department, head of the inspection of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR. Until 1977, he worked in the operational service, which he began as a junior lieutenant . He worked in the Fifth Directorate of the KGB (headed it in the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR? ^[1] ). After that, Yevgeny Marchuk moved to the leading posts in which he was until 1991. In 1988, he was appointed head of the KGB department in the Poltava region. In 1990, already a general , he was appointed first deputy head of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR.

From June 5 to November 6, 1991, Yevgeny Marchuk served as Minister of State of the Ukrainian SSR for defense, state security and emergency situations. (For attitudes toward the Emergency Committee, see [2] .)

In November 1991, he was appointed the first chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) , the assignee of the KGB of the Ukrainian SSR. From November 1991 - Lieutenant General, from August 1992 - Colonel General.

• Arms trade. Leonid Kravchuk recalled: “The state did not have enough money then. The receipt of funds could be ensured through foreign economic operations. But it was a delicate thing, for which it was risky to take, without having comprehensive information. Especially when it came to arms trading. I remember that at that time Belarus turned to us in order to sell military products abroad with our help ... ” ^[2] .

They note that "during 1991-1995. The SBU did not track and did not initiate a single case regarding the theft of state property, which would include the names of high officials ” ^[3] .

March 23, 1994 Eugene Marchuk was awarded the rank of General of the Army of Ukraine . After the 1994 presidential election, which was won by L. D. Kuchma, on July 1, 1994, Marchuk, remaining the chairman of the SBU (until July 12), was appointed deputy prime minister for state security and defense in the office of Vitaly Masol (specially created for him position ^[4] ). Since October 31, 1994, Yevgeny Marchuk was First Deputy Prime Minister ^[5] , Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Combating Corruption and Organized Crime, and on March 6, 1995 he was appointed Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine. June 8, 1995 Yevgeny Marchuk became Prime Minister of Ukraine. He held this position for less than a year - until May 27, 1996, when he was dismissed with the wording “for the formation of his own political image” ^[1] .

L. D. Kuchma subsequently spoke of his activities as prime minister: “Once at the presidency table, Marchuk showed a complete lack of taste for daily economic work and a desire to do it, an irrepressible passion for verbosity ... First, I attributed this to Marchuk’s desire to understand all the problems himself completely, as he likes to say, “with laboratory accuracy”, to collect comprehensive information about them. But he soon began to suspect that he simply did not want to, was simply afraid to make decisions, and this fear was based on a lack of understanding of economic mechanisms and attempts to distance himself from any unpopular steps. Obviously, long-term work in the KGB taught Marchuk only to collect information (and in order for others to make decisions based on it!), But he did not know how to implement what he collected in the interests of the economy. In the yard is summer, then autumn of 1995. For the first time, significant arrears of pensions and salaries are beginning to accumulate, which are growing from month to month. Production is falling. And the Cabinet is clearly not keeping pace with the situation, finding ways to freeze it, slows down decision-making, and inadequately responds to problems of industry and agriculture. Perhaps this is elementary incompetence? The same as, for example, the decision of the chairman of the State Commission on Monetary Reform Marchuk in the fall of 1995, contrary to the recommendations of experts, still not to introduce the hryvnia? ” ^[4]

While still the Prime Minister of Ukraine, Yevhen Marchuk in December 1995 participated in the by-election of the People’s Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Mirgorod (No. 324) constituency (it is worth recalling that March 1990 worked in the Poltava region). He was elected in the first round of 83.71% of the vote with 6 applicants. Interestingly, one of the candidates was Bakai, Igor Mikhailovich , who starred in favor of Marchuk ^[3] . In December 1995 - April 1998 - Member of the Verkhovna Rada, headed the Social Market Choice faction in parliament.

In October 1996, shortly before his death, Yevgeny Shcherban founded the Day newspaper in Kiev, which, after his assassination, came under the control of Marchuk: “Marchuk received at his disposal the only informational and analytical daily newspaper with a formed audience. Moreover: the newspaper gradually began to acquire the image of the opposition, which led to an influx of both readers and high-profile authors to the publication. Soon there is a replacement of the chief editor: instead of Vladimir Ruban, who gave the newspaper a “ticket to life”, the former press secretary of Marchuk Larisa Ivshina becomes the editor of the publication ” ^[3] . Ivshina will subsequently become Marchuk's wife.

Soon then, still non-partisan Yevgeny Marchuk joined the SDPU (o) (on his own statement in 2006, he never was a member of the SDPU (o) ^[6] ). In the parliamentary elections in March 1998, he spoke at number 2 of this political force and for the second time was elected to the Verkhovna Rada. From May to December 1998, he headed the parliamentary faction of the SDPU (o).

A participant in the 1999 Ukrainian presidential election , on October 31, 1999 in the first round, took fifth place out of thirteen, gaining 8.13% (2,138,356 votes). Despite the loss, he managed after a short period of time to again occupy an influential position - from November 10, 1999 to June 25, 2003 Yevhen Marchuk was secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine . That is why on March 2, 2000, he left the ranks of people's deputies of Ukraine.

It is interesting that, according to Marchuk, during the 1999 presidential campaign, provocations were prepared against him, about which he was repeatedly warned by Melnichenko ^[7] .

June 25, 2003 Evgeni Marchuk was appointed Minister of Defense of Ukraine. He held this position until September 27, 2004; explosions at artillery warehouses in Artemovsk and Novobogdanovka became a formal reason for his resignation. After his resignation, Yevgeny Marchuk, who broke with the SDPU (o) in December 2004, created a Freedom Party with a group of like-minded people, whose head he was elected.

In the March 26, 2006 parliamentary elections , Yevgeny Marchuk spoke at number 1 of the Yevgeny Marchuk Unity party bloc, which was led by the Freedom Party. The bloc received, however, only 11,004 votes (0.06%) and Yevgeny Marchuk did not go to parliament. After the defeat in the elections, Yevgeny Marchuk faded into Ukrainian politics.

In 2015, he was the representative of Ukraine on security issues in the tripartite contact group for the settlement of the war in the Donbass .

PhD in Law; Candidate dissertation “Criminological and criminal law characteristics of criminal organizations” (University of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, 1998).

• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, V art. (January 27, 2001) - for outstanding services in strengthening the national security of Ukraine, fruitful state and political activity
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor
• Order of Merit to the Republic of Poland
• Registered firearms (January 1996) ^[8]
• Laureate of the International Ukrainian Prize named after Pans (1997)

First wife Lidia Ivanovna. Two sons from the first marriage, Taras and Vadim.

• Wife Larisa Alekseevna Ivshina (1960) editor-in-chief of the newspaper The Day ^[9]
• Eugene Marchuk is fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German.

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