Alina Volodymyrivna Shpak (born 24 December 1980,

Lutsk Lutsk (, ; see #Names and etymology, below for other names) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Volyn Oblast and the administrative center of Lutsk Raion within the oblast. Lutsk has a populati ...

) is a Ukrainian archivist. From 18 September 2019 to 11 December 2019 she was acting director of the

Ukrainian Institute of National Memory The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINM, ), also translated as the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, is the central executive body operating under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Established on 31 May 2006 as a special org ...

. She is a leader in

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Life and work

Shpak graduated with a master's degree from the philological faculty of

Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University The Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University () is a Ukrainian state-sponsored university in Lutsk, named after Lesya Ukrainka. History The history of this university began in 1940 with the founding of the Lutsk State Teachers’ Institute ...

, majoring in English language and literature. In 2002, she cofounded with Igor Guz and Igor Kulik, the Volyn regional organization " Youth Nationalist Congress." In 2006–2008 she worked in the Lutsk City Council, was the head of the Department of International Cooperation. In 2008–2010, she worked as a consultant, to the

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. At the invitation of

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, she was deputy director of the Department of Archival Support. She is First Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language. From 18 September 2019 to 11 December 2019, after the dismissal of Viatrovich, she performed the duties of the head of the Ukrainian National Labor Organization. On 19 February 2020, she was dismissed from the post of first deputy head of the Ukrainian

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. On 31 August 2020, she was appointed the first deputy head of the Secretariat of the Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language.

Personal life

Her parents are Volodymyr Markovych Shpak, born in 1952 and a resident of Lutsk and psychology teacher at VSU, and Alla Dmytrivna Shpak, born in 1959, from Lutsk. Her brother is Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Shpak, born in 1986 in Lutsk. He was the chairman of the local council of the Lutsk township of the Ukrainian national scout organization "Plast" in 2005-2007. In 2007-2010, he held the position of chairman of the Kraiova Plastova Eldership, and in 2010-2012 he headed the

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office of UCU. He moved to the United States in 2012.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shpak, Alina Living people Ukrainian archivists Ukrainian women activists Lesya Ukrainka East European National University alumni People from Lutsk 1980 births