Biography
Born in Antratsyt Raion, Tikhonov served in the Verkhovna Rada from 1994 to 2014. He also served as the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine from 11 March 2010 until 1 June 2011, with the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. Additionally, Tikhonov was chairman of the Luhansk Regional Council in eastern Ukraine from 1998 to 2006. He also served as the ambassador to Belarus from 2011 to 2012. In a 2016 interview, Tikhonov stated that he now permanently lived in Russian-occupied Crimea. Viktor Tikhonov died from pneumonia in Simferopol on 29 August 2020, at the age of 71.References
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