Maksym Yevhenovych Dyrdin (; born 11 October 1982) is a Ukrainian politician currently serving as 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 ...

representing Ukraine's 132nd electoral district, as a member of

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since 2019.

Early life and career

Maksym Yevhenovych Dyrdin was born on 11 October 1982 in the city of Pervomaisk, in Ukraine's southern

Mykolaiv Oblast Mykolaiv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Mykolaivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) of Ukraine. The administrative center of the oblast is the city of Mykolaiv. At the most recent estimate, the population ...

. He is a graduate of the , specialising in jurisprudence. Since 2011, he has been a Candidate of Judicial Sciences, and since 2013 he has been an associate professor. In 2006, Dyrdin became a legal adviser to "Ukraine's Bread" DAK. The same year, he joined the National University of Taxation's staff, working his way up from an assistant to associate professor of criminal law and forensics. He worked at the university until 2016, becoming general director of , a clothing manufacturer. Since 2009, he has been a lawyer. In the 4th Verkhovna Rada, he served as an assistant to

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People's Deputy Ivan Kuras.

Political career

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 ...

, Dyrdin was the candidate of

for

in Ukraine's 132nd electoral district. At the time of the election, he was an

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. He was successfully elected, defeating the independent incumbent Arkadiy Kornatskiy with 42.54% of the vote to Kornatskiy's 9.95%. In the

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(parliament of Ukraine), Dyrdin joined the Servant of the People faction and the Verkhovna Rada Legal Committee. In late 2022, Dyrdin voted for urban planning reform, a move condemned by anti-corruption non-governmental organisation

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, as centralising reconstruction efforts following the

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References

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