Sergii Dmytrovych Osachuk (; born 7 June 1972) is a Ukrainian officer, public servant and

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, actively participating in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Osachuk holds the rank of colonel. He served as Governor of

Chernivtsi Oblast Chernivtsi Oblast (), also referred to as Chernivechchyna (), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine, consisting of the northern parts of the historical regions of Bukovina and Bessarabia. It has an international border with Romania and Moldo ...

from 2019 to 2022.

Biography

In 1994, Osachuk graduated from the University of Chernivtsi. He is a PhD in History Science and a

senior researcher Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to c ...

at the University of Chernivtsi. In

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

, Osachuk ran for the Chernivtsi City Council. Since 2013, he served as an

Honorary Consul A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries. A consu ...

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

. He speaks English and German fluently.

Controversies

Osachuk was known for a series of controversial statements and measures regarding the

Romanians of Chernivtsi Oblast This article represents an overview on the history of Romanians in Ukraine, including those Romanians of Northern Bukovina, Zakarpattia, the Hertsa region, and Budjak in Odesa Oblast, but also those Romanophones in the territory between th ...

, such as the denial of the

Fântâna Albă massacre The Fântâna Albă massacre took place on 1 April 1941 in Northern Bukovina when up to 3,000 civilians were killed by Soviet Border Troops as they attempted to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania near the village of Fântâna Alb� ...

and the removal from the Central Square of Chernivtsi of the banner that reproduced the first documentary attestation of the city, issued by the Moldavian ruler

Alexandru cel Bun Alexander I, commonly known as Alexander the Good (; – 1 January 1432) was Voivode of Moldavia between 1400 and 1432. He was the son of Roman I and succeeded Iuga to the throne. As ruler he initiated a series of reforms while consolidating ...

. Due to this, the Romanian press labeled him as anti-Romanian.https://m.ziare.com/amp/sef/sef-administratie-cernauti-demis-guvern-kiev-1746219

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Osachuk, Serhiy 1972 births Living people Anti-Romanian sentiment Politicians from Chernivtsi Chernivtsi University alumni 21st-century Ukrainian historians 21st-century translators Ukrainian translators Ukrainian nationalists Honorary consuls Governors of Chernivtsi Oblast 21st-century Ukrainian politicians Unity (Ukraine) politicians Academic staff of Chernivtsi University Pro-Ukrainian people of the Russian invasion of Ukraine