Viktor Tikhonov (politician)

Viktor Tikhonov
Viktor Tikhonov
Віктор Тихонов
Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
	In office; March 11, 2010 – June 1, 2011
Prime Minister	Mykola Azarov
Chairman of the Luhansk Oblast Council
	In office; April 24, 1998 – April 2006
Preceded by	Leonid Dayneko
Succeeded by	Valeriy Holenko
Deputy Governor of Luhansk Oblast
	In office; November 1995 – April 1998
Governor	Hennadiy Fomenko
Personal details
Born	5 March 1949; Antratsyt Raion, Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	29 August 2020 (aged 71); Simferopol, Crimea

Viktor Mykolayovych Tikhonov, also spelled Viktor Tykhonov (Ukrainian: Віктор Миколайович Тихонов, 5 March 1949 – 29 August 2020) was a Ukrainian politician.

Biography

Born in Antratsyt Raion, Tikhonov served in the Verkhovna Rada from 1994 to 2014. He also served as the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine from 11 March 2010 until 1 June 2011, with the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.[1]

Additionally, Tikhonov was chairman of the Luhansk Regional Council in eastern Ukraine from 1998 to 2006.[1] He also served as the ambassador to Belarus from 2011 to 2012.[1]

In a 2016 interview, Tikhonov stated that he now permanently lived in Russian-occupied Crimea.[1]

Viktor Tikhonov died from pneumonia in Simferopol on 29 August 2020, at the age of 71.[1]

References

"Азаров: Помер колишній віце-прем'єр України". Ukrayinska Pravda. 2020-08-29. Archived from the original on 2020-08-31. Retrieved 2020-09-26.

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[up-1] "Азаров: Помер колишній віце-прем'єр України". Ukrayinska Pravda. 2020-08-29. Archived from the original on 2020-08-31. Retrieved 2020-09-26.