Ihor Stepanovych Nasalyk (; born 25 November 1962) is a Ukrainian optoelectronic engineer and politician. Nasalyk served as Minister of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine from 2016 until 2019.

Early life

Nasalyk was born on 25 November 1962 in

Oleksandriia Oleksandriia (, ) is a city in Kirovohrad Oblast, central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Oleksandriia Raion and . Oleksandriia is located within the Kryvyi Rih metropolitan area. In 2001, it had a population of 93,357, a ...

, which was then part of the

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

. From 1980 to 1985 he studied at the

University of Lviv The Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (named after Ivan Franko, ) is a state-sponsored university in Lviv, Ukraine. Since 1940 the university is named after Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko. The university is the oldest institution of highe ...

. He then went into

Soviet Army The Soviet Ground Forces () was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992. It was preceded by the Red Army. After the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, the Ground Forces remained under th ...

after

conscription Conscription, also known as the draft in the United States and Israel, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it conti ...

until 1987. In 1987, after graduating, he briefly worked as a driver at the

Rohatyn Rohatyn (, ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city located on the Hnyla Lypa River in Ivano-Frankivsk Raion, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, in western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Rohatyn urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Popula ...

Motor Transport Enterprise. He then went back into education, receiving his higher education in 1989 at Lviv University in the Faculty of Physics. He was then a leading specialist at the Center for Microelectronics at

Ulyanovsk Ulyanovsk,, , known as Simbirsk until 1924, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River east of Moscow. Ulyanovsk has been the only Russian UNESCO Ci ...

from 1990 until 1992. For a year he then worked as an advisor and director on economic issues of the enterprise "Korona" in Lviv. Then, in 1993, he became economic advisor to a company in Rohatyn. In 1995–1998, he was president of the production corporation "Tekhno-Center" (Tekhnoinvestcenter) in

Political career

He was a

People's Deputy of Ukraine A people's deputy of Ukraine (, ) is a member of parliament and legislator elected by Direct election, popular vote to the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament of Ukraine. They are often referred to simply as "deputies". Prior to 1991, the Verkhovna R ...

in the

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada ( ; VR), officially the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, is the unicameralism, unicameral parliament of Ukraine. It consists of 450 Deputy (legislator), deputies presided over by a speaker. The Verkhovna Rada meets in the Verkhovn ...

from 1998 to 2019. In the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parli ...

Nasalyk lost reelection as an independent candidate in single-seat constituency 85 (

Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (), also referred to as Ivano-Frankivshchyna () or simply Frankivshchyna, is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (region) in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ivano-Frankivsk. It has a pop ...

). He was the former mayor of Kalush from 2006 to 2014 also.

Legal affairs

In November 2020, the

High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine The High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine (; , HACC of Ukraine) is a Ukrainian court established on 11 April 2019. The court handed down its first sentence on 30 October 2019. Cases concerning corruption in Ukraine are to be brought directly to ...

canceled the closure of a case in which Nasalyk was suspected of false declarations in statements worth $1.2 million. In February 2023, it was declared that there was suspicion of abuse of office, which would result in six years in prison, where he concluded agreements with businessman that were known to unprofitable to Ukraine and that he wrote off funds to merchants for state property.

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