Serhiy Volodymyrovych Kunitsyn (; born 27 July 1960) is a Ukrainian politician from

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, and veteran of the

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. Since December 2014 Kunitsyn is a member of the

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as an

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for

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.Profile page as People's Deputy of Ukraine VIII convocation
at the official website of the

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Biography

He was born on 27 July 1960 in the town of Bekdash, on the

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coast in the

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, in the

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. In 1982 Kunitsyn graduated as a construction engineer-technologist from the

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Construction Engineering Institute in

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. After the institute he worked for "Perekop Chemical Construction" (

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) followed by the obligatory service in the army and serving over a year in

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during the

. After the army, for a short period in 1985 Kunitsyn worked as an engineer-technologist at "Crimea Canal Construction" followed by the appointment as a chief engineer at the Krasnoperekopsk Plant of reinforced concrete where he worked until 1989. In 1989–1990 he worked as an instructor at the ideological department of the Krasnoperekopsk city committee of the

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. In March 1990 Kunitsyn was elected as the

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and the following month as a mayor of Krasnoperekopsk. He serving as mayor until 1998. During that time, he also headed the Party Union in support of Crimea Republic. In 1995–2001 Kunitsyn served as a head of administration of the North Crimean experimental economic zone "Syvash". From 27 May 1998 to 24 July 2001 and from April 2002 to April 2005 he was placing the Chairman of the

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. From July 2001 to April 2002 he was an advisor to President

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. Since February 2004 Kunitsyn has headed the Crimean regional organization of the Ukrainian society of Afghanistan veterans. From June 2006 to April 2010 he was the Chairman of Sevastopol City State Administration appointed by the

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.Short bio
LIGAContemporary Ukraine: Dynamics of Post-Soviet Transformation
by

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, 1998, (page 44) In 2008, as a Chairman of Sevastopol City State Administration, Kunitsyn joined the political party

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. In 2012 Kunitsyn was reelected to the

(Ukrainian parliament) as a member of the

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party. On 27 February 2014 a decree of the acting President,

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, appointed him Permanent Representative of the President in Crimea. On 24 March 2014 Kunitsyn said that "because of the toothless government" he had decided to resign from this post and on 26 March Turchinov signed a decree to dismiss him with the phrase "for the improper performance of official duties." President

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appointed Kunitsyn as his adviser on 25 June 2014. Since December 2014 Kunitsyn is a member of the Ukrainian parliament as an

for

, he was number 68 of the national party list of this political party in the

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Personal life

Sehiy Kunitsyn has married in 1982. He has two children daughter Natalia (1986) and son Oleksiy (1991).

References

External links

Verkhovna Rada website

Opened Ukraine

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