Andrei Ivanovich Ivanets (; born 17 September 1984) is a Belarusian politician serving as minister of education since 2022. From 2019 to 2022, he was a member of the Council of the Republic.

Early life

He was born on 17 September 1984 in

Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administra ...

. He first entered the Lyceum of the Belarusian State University after becoming interested in

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a physical science within the natural sciences that studies the chemical elements that make up matter and chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules a ...

. During his years at the lyceum, he entered international competitions in chemistry and was awarded bronze at the International Mendeleev Olympiad and the International Chemistry Olympiad. After winning his bronze awards, he became a student at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Belarusian State University (BSU), but gradually his interest in chemistry declined until meeting professor Vladimir Vasilyevich Pankov, who made him regain interest in it. In 2006 he graduated from BSU, and he started working at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. When he was appointed Minister of Education he was working as chief scientific secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Personal life

Ivanets is married and has 4 children. He met his wife Kristina, a lawyer who is on the Central Committee of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, at the contest "100 Ideas for Belarus", which she organized. He has also been active in sports, being awarded the title of Master of Sports of International Class in 2010 and in 2012 at the Classic Powerlifting World Cup setting a word record in the

deadlift The deadlift is a strength training exercise in which a weight-loaded barbell is lifted off the ground to the level of the hips, with the torso perpendicular to the floor, before being placed back on the ground. It is one of the three powerlifting ...

in the open age category at 340 kg.

References

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